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Literary Politics and Intellectuals

  • Berghahn, Volker R., America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (Princeton, 2001).
  • Bowker, Gordon, George Orwell (London, 2004).
  • Caute, David, The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War (Oxford, 2003).
  • Coleman, Peter, The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe (New York, 1989).
  • Hewison, Robert, In Anger: Culture in the Cold War (London, 1988).
  • Hitchens, Christopher, Orwell's Victory (London, 2003)
  • Judt, Tony, Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals 1944-1956 (Berkeley, 1992).
  • Kramer, Hilton, The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War (Chicago, 1999).
  • Lewis, John, The Philosophy of Betrayal: An Analysis of the Anti-Soviet Propaganda of Arthur Koestler and Others (London, 1945).
  • Lewis, Peter, George Orwell: The Road to 1984 (London, 1981).
  • Lindey, Christine, Art in the Cold War: From Vladivostok to Kalamazoo, 1945-1962 (London, 1990).
  • Lucas, Scott, The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century (London, 2004).
  • May, Lary (ed.), Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Cold War (Chicago, 1989).
  • Scott-Smith, Giles, The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA and Post-War American Hegemony (London and New York: Routledge, 2002).
  • Shaw, Tony, 'Some Writers are More Equal than Others', in Rana Mitter and Patrick Major (eds), Across the Blocs (London, 2003).
  • Shelden, Michael, Orwell: The Authorised Biography (London, 1991).
  • Swayze, Harold, Political Control of Literature in the USSR, 1946-1959 (Cambridge, MA, 1962).
  • West, W.J., The Larger Evils: Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Truth behind the Satire (Edinburgh, 1992).
  • White, Anne, De-Stalinisation and the House of Culture: Declining State Control over Leisure in the USSR, Poland and Hungary (London, 1990).
  • Wilford, Hugh, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune? (London, 2003).
  • Williams, Rhys (ed.), German Writers and the Cold War, 1945-1961 (Manchester, 1992).
  • Zhdanov, A., On Literature, Music and Philosophy (London, 1950).
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