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Title Across the blocs : Cold War cultural and social history / editors, Rana Mitter, Patrick Major
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (178 pages)
Contents East is East and West is West? Towards a comparative socio-cultural history of the Cold War / Patrick Major and Rana Mitter -- 'The man who invented truth' : the tenure of Edward R. Murrow as director of the United States information agency during the Kennedy years / Nicholas Call -- Soviet cinema in the Early Cold War : Pudovkin's Admiral Nakhimov in context / Sarah Davies -- Future perfect? Communist science fiction in the Cold War / Patrick Major -- The education of dissent : the reception of the voice of free Hungary, 1951-56 / Mark Pittaway -- The debate over nuclear refuge / David Seed -- Some writers are more equal than others' : George Orwell, the state and Cold War privilege / Tony Shaw
Notes "This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue of Cold War History (ISSN 1468-2745), Vol.4, No.1 (October 2003)"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cold War.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- Europe
Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States
Cold War -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Popular culture -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century
Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History
Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Research institutes -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Research institutes -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century
Politics and culture -- Soviet Union
Anti-communist movements
Mass media -- Political aspects
Politics and culture
Popular culture
Research institutes
Social aspects
Europe
Soviet Union
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Major, Patrick
Mitter, Rana,
ISBN 9780203307403
0203307402