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Propaganda

[c] Convenor: Patrick Major

  • What images of the Other did the media convey to the public?
  • How successfully were the western media able to penetrate the iron curtain?
  • Did the general public support Cold War confrontation?


    • Media/broadcasting

  • Aronson, James, The Press and the Cold War (New York, 1970).
  • Becker, Jonathan A., Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition (Basingstoke, 1999).
  • Bernhard, Nancy, U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960 (Cambridge, 1999).
  • Bernhard, Nancy E., ‘Clearer Than Truth: Public Affairs Television and the State Department’s Domestic Information Campaigns, 1947-1952’, Diplomatic History, 21 (1997), 545-67.
  • Brooks, Jeffrey, Thank you, comrade Stalin!: Soviet public culture from revolution to Cold War (Princeton, NJ, 1999).
  • Curtin, Michael, Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics (New Brunswick, NJ, 1995).
  • Defty, Andrew, Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda, 1945-53: The Information Research Department (London, 2004).
  • Doherty, Thomas, Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism and American Culture (New York, 2003).
  • Graffy, Julian, and Hosking, Geoffrey, Culture and the Media in the USSR Today (Basingstoke, 1989).
  • Hixson, Walter L., Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture and the Cold War, 1945-1961 (Basingstoke, 1997).
  • Keen, Sam, Faces of the Enemy: Reflections of the Hostile Imagination: The Psychology of Enmity (San Francisco, 1986).
  • Lashmar, Paul and James Oliver, Britain’s Secret Propaganda War, 1948-1977 (Thrupp, 1998).
  • Mickiewicz, Ellen, Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union (New York, 1988).
  • Nelson, Michael, War of the Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War (London, 1997).
  • Puddington, Arch, Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (Lexington, KE, 2000).
  • Simpson, Christopher, Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960 (New York, 1994).


    • Public/popular opinion

  • Allinson, Mark, Politics and Popular Opinion in East Germany 1945-1968 (Manchester, 2000).
  • Almond, Gabriel, The American People and Foreign Policy (2nd edn.; New York:, 1960).
  • Bell, P.M.H., John Bull and the Bear: British Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and the Soviet Union, 1941-45 (London, 1990).
  • Fearon, James D., ‘Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes’, American Political Science Review, 88 (1994).
  • Foyle, Douglas C., Counting the Public In: Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy (New York:, 1999).
  • Inkeles, Alex and Raymond Bauer, The Soviet Citizen: Daily Life in a Totalitarian Society (Cambridge, MA, 1961).
  • Merritt, Richard and Anna, Public Opinion in Occupied Germany: The OMGUS Surveys, 1945-1949 (Urbana, IL, 1970).
  • Merritt, Richard and Anna, Public Opinion in Semisovereign Germany: The HICOG Surveys, 1949-1955 (Urbana, IL., 1980).
  • Noelle, Elisabeth and Neumann, Erich Peter, The Germans: Public Opinion Polls, 1947-1966 (Allensbach and Bonn, 1967).
  • Noelle, Elisabeth and Neumann, Erich Peter, The Germans: Public Opinion Polls, 1967-1980 (Westport, 1981).
  • Page, Benjamin I. and Robert Y. Shapiro, The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans’ Policy Preferences (Chicago, 1992).
  • Ross, Corey, Constructing Socialism at the Grass Roots: The Transformation of East Germany, 1945-1965 (Basingstoke, 2000).
  • White, John Kenneth, Still Seeing Red: How the Cold War Shapes the New American Politics (Boulder, CO, 1998).
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