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

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 an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (612 p.)
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Table of 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