War of Words ― Culture and the Mass Media in the Making of the Cold War in Europe

These seventeen essays mark the differences that began to be seen at the dawn of the Cold War, the sides each culture decided upon and took, and the ways the culture adapted, as if waiting for the next war. Contributions include entries about Eastern approaches to myths and their makers, including the leadership cult in communist Hungary, Soviet power and its images in celebrating Stalin's seventieth birthday, ideological pressure and censorship in Czech literature, agitation and propaganda in Bulgaria, and the workings of the ItalianCommunist Party in Italy against fascists. Then there are articles about changes in attitude about European radio, political poster art in the two German states, identity in Marshall Plan propaganda films, Stalinist urban planning and mass media in Poland and the German Democratic Republic, Stalin's skyscrapers, and the politics of entertainment, including the Estonian media audience, jazz in Austria, the "new man" in Hungarian literature from Romania, American rock and roll in Germany, and the making of the new left in Denmark from 1956 to 1966. Distributed by Dufour. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)