TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reisch,Alfred A.
TI  - Hot books in the Cold War: the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain 
AV  - Z1003.5.E92 R45 2013eb
U1  - 028.70947/0904 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Budapest
PB  - Central European University Press
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Communist countries
KW  - Book distribution programs
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Propaganda, Anti-communist
KW  - Propaganda, International
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-535) and indexes; Origins, objectives, and launching of the book project under Sam Walker -- Titles, contents, numbers, targets, and aims of the mailings -- The man in the grey suit : George C. Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition -- The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books -- The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s -- Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support -- New opportunities through East-West contacts -- The early 1970s : the international advisory council -- A lasting enemy -- The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks -- The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959 -- Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings -- The most important book distribution point : Vienna -- Letters from Poland, the crucial country -- Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968 -- Letters from Hungary under goulash communism -- Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime -- Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship -- The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10776445
ER  -