Parting the Curtain : Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961

by Hixson, Walter L.

• ISBN13: 9780312160807
• ISBN10: 0312160801
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

During the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, Washington policymakers aspired to destabilize the Soviet and East European Communist Party regimes by implementing programs of psychological warfare and gradual cultural infiltration. In focusing on American propaganda and cultural infiltration of the Soviet empire in these years, Parting the Curtain emerges as a groundbreaking study of certain aspects of US Cold War diplomacy never before examined.

Author Biography

Walter L. Hixson is Professor of History at the University of Akron.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	vii	(2)
INTRODUCTION Cultural Infiltration and the Cold War	ix
CHAPTER 1 A Campaign of Truth: The Rebirth of Psychological Warfare	1	(28)
CHAPTER 2 Reviving the Voice: The Radio Cold War Begins	29	(28)
CHAPTER 3 Liberation Denied: The Twilight of Psychological Warfare	57	(30)
CHAPTER 4 From Revolution to Evolution: The Thaw in East-West Cultural Relations	87	(34)
CHAPTER 5 "People's Capitalism:" USIA, Race Relations, and Cultural Infiltration	121	(30)
CHAPTER 6 From the Summit to the Model Kitchen: The Cultural Agreement and the Moscow Fair	151	(34)
CHAPTER 7 Six Weeks at Sokolniki: Soviet Responses to the American Exhibition	185	(30)
CHAPTER 8 Conclusions: Militarization, Cultural Infiltration, and the Cold War	215	(14)
Afterword	229	(6)
Notes	235	(43)
Index	278