Defending democracy in cold war Finland : : British and American propaganda and cultural diplomacy in Finland, 1944-1970 / / Marek Fields.

In Defending Democracy in Cold War Finland, Marek Fields offers a thorough account on the various informational and cultural strategies Britain and the United States used during the early Cold War decades in order to increase their influence and contain communism in Finland. The book shows that by u...

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Superior document:New perspectives on the Cold War
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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In Defending Democracy in Cold War Finland, Marek Fields offers a thorough account on the various informational and cultural strategies Britain and the United States used during the early Cold War decades in order to increase their influence and contain communism in Finland. The book shows that by using propaganda and cultural diplomacy in an exceptionally challenging environment, the two Western powers were able to achieve their main objectives in the region, i.e. to defend democracy and strengthen Finland’s attachment to the West, surprisingly well. Making use of a large variety of British, American and Finnish archives, Fields proves that the Western countries’ interest in Finland during the Cold War was stronger than it has previously been realised.
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Cold War.
Finland Foreign relations 1945-1981.
Finland Foreign Relations Great Britain.
Great Britain Foreign relations Finland.
Finland Foreign Relations United States.
United States Foreign relations Finland.
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title_full Defending democracy in cold war Finland : British and American propaganda and cultural diplomacy in Finland, 1944-1970 / Marek Fields.
title_fullStr Defending democracy in cold war Finland : British and American propaganda and cultural diplomacy in Finland, 1944-1970 / Marek Fields.
title_full_unstemmed Defending democracy in cold war Finland : British and American propaganda and cultural diplomacy in Finland, 1944-1970 / Marek Fields.
title_auth Defending democracy in cold war Finland : British and American propaganda and cultural diplomacy in Finland, 1944-1970 /
title_new Defending democracy in cold war Finland :
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