Hot books in the Cold War : the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain /
Alfred A. Reisch.
- Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 549 pages, 16. pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Origins, objectives, and launching of the book project under Sam Walker -- Titles, contents, numbers, targets, and aims of the mailings -- The man in the grey suit : George C. Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition -- The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books -- The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s -- Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support -- New opportunities through East-West contacts -- The early 1970s : the international advisory council -- A lasting enemy -- The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks -- The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959 -- Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings -- The most important book distribution point : Vienna -- Letters from Poland, the crucial country -- Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968 -- Letters from Hungary under goulash communism -- Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime -- Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship -- The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Limited, East Europe, and the USSR -- The impact of the book distribution project and its contribution to the ideological victory of the West.
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Books and reading--History--Europe, Eastern--20th century. Books and reading--History--Communist countries--20th century. Book distribution programs. Publishers and publishing--Political aspects. Censorship--History--Europe, Eastern--20th century. Censorship--History--Communist countries--20th century. Propaganda, Anti-communist. Propaganda, International. Cold War. Book distribution programs. Books and reading--Communist countries--History--20th century. Books and reading--History--Europe, Eastern--20th century. Censorship--Communist countries--History--20th century. Censorship--History--Europe, Eastern--20th century. Propaganda, Anti-communist. Propaganda, International. Publishers and publishing--Political aspects.