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Cold War Broadcasting : Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe / ed. by R. Eugene Parta, A. Ross Johnson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (612 p.)Content type:
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  • 9786155211904
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 384.540947/09045 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1. GOALS OF THE BROADCASTS -- CHAPTER 1. RFE ’s Early Years: Evolution of Broadcast Policy and Evidence of Broadcast Impact -- CHAPTER 2. Goals of Radio Liberty -- CHAPTER 3. The Voice of America: A Brief Cold War History -- Part 2. JAMMING AND AUDIENCES -- CHAPTER 4. Cold War Radio Jamming -- CHAPTER 5. The Audience to Western Broadcasts to the USSR During the Cold War: An External Perspective -- CHAPTER 6. The Foreign Radio Audience in the USSR During the Cold War: An Internal Perspective -- CHAPTER 7. The Audience to Western Broadcasts to Poland During the Cold War -- Part 3. IMPACT OF WESTERN BROADCASTS IN EASTERN EUROPE -- CHAPTER 8. Radio Free Europe in the Eyes of the Polish Communist Elite -- CHAPTER 9. Polish Regime Countermeasures against Radio Free Europe -- CHAPTER 10. Radio Free Europe’s Impact in Romania During the Cold War -- CHAPTER 11. Ceauşescu’s War against Our Ears -- CHAPTER 12. Just Noise? Impact of Radio Free Europe in Hungary -- CHAPTER 13. Bulgarian Regime Countermeasures against Radio Free Europe -- Part 4. IMPACT OF WESTERN BROADCASTS IN THE USSR -- CHAPTER 14. Soviet Reactions to Foreign Broadcasting in the 1950s -- CHAPTER 15. Foreign Media, the Soviet Western Frontier, and the Hungarian and Czechoslovak Crises -- CHAPTER 16. Water Shaping the Rock: Cold War Broadcasting Impact in Latvia -- Part 5. Conclusions -- CHAPTER 17. Cold War International Broadcasting and the Road to Democracy -- Part 6. DOCUMENTS FROM EAST EUROPEAN AND SOVIET ARCHIVES -- Introduction -- I. Regime Perceptions of Western Broadcasters -- II. Regime Countermeasures against Western Broadcasters -- Contributors -- Glossary -- Index: Notes are Indicated by N Following the Page Number
Summary: The book examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from formerly secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1. GOALS OF THE BROADCASTS -- CHAPTER 1. RFE ’s Early Years: Evolution of Broadcast Policy and Evidence of Broadcast Impact -- CHAPTER 2. Goals of Radio Liberty -- CHAPTER 3. The Voice of America: A Brief Cold War History -- Part 2. JAMMING AND AUDIENCES -- CHAPTER 4. Cold War Radio Jamming -- CHAPTER 5. The Audience to Western Broadcasts to the USSR During the Cold War: An External Perspective -- CHAPTER 6. The Foreign Radio Audience in the USSR During the Cold War: An Internal Perspective -- CHAPTER 7. The Audience to Western Broadcasts to Poland During the Cold War -- Part 3. IMPACT OF WESTERN BROADCASTS IN EASTERN EUROPE -- CHAPTER 8. Radio Free Europe in the Eyes of the Polish Communist Elite -- CHAPTER 9. Polish Regime Countermeasures against Radio Free Europe -- CHAPTER 10. Radio Free Europe’s Impact in Romania During the Cold War -- CHAPTER 11. Ceauşescu’s War against Our Ears -- CHAPTER 12. Just Noise? Impact of Radio Free Europe in Hungary -- CHAPTER 13. Bulgarian Regime Countermeasures against Radio Free Europe -- Part 4. IMPACT OF WESTERN BROADCASTS IN THE USSR -- CHAPTER 14. Soviet Reactions to Foreign Broadcasting in the 1950s -- CHAPTER 15. Foreign Media, the Soviet Western Frontier, and the Hungarian and Czechoslovak Crises -- CHAPTER 16. Water Shaping the Rock: Cold War Broadcasting Impact in Latvia -- Part 5. Conclusions -- CHAPTER 17. Cold War International Broadcasting and the Road to Democracy -- Part 6. DOCUMENTS FROM EAST EUROPEAN AND SOVIET ARCHIVES -- Introduction -- I. Regime Perceptions of Western Broadcasters -- II. Regime Countermeasures against Western Broadcasters -- Contributors -- Glossary -- Index: Notes are Indicated by N Following the Page Number

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The book examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from formerly secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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