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

by Hixson, Walter L.

• ISBN13: 9780312176808
• ISBN10: 0312176805
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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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

Introduction
A Propaganda Strategy for the Cold War
Reviving the Voice
Liberation Propaganda
Liberation Denied
A Breakthrough in East-West Exchange
To the Kitchen Debate
The Soviets and Sokolniki
Conclusions