冷戦の比較文化・社会史 Across the Blocs : Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History (Cold War History)

Major, Patrick (EDT)/ Mitter, Rana (EDT)

Routledge（2004/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 188 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780714655819
• DDC分類 909.825

基本説明

The first volume to make cross-cultural comparisons of the socio-cultural aspects of the Cold War across the East/West bloc divide, deals with issues including broadcasting, public opinion, and the production and consumption of popular cutlure.

Full Description

This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history. It makes cross-cultural comparisons of the socio cultural aspects of the Cold War across the East/West block divide, dealing with issues including broadcasting, public opinion, and the production and consumption of popular culture.

Contents

1. East is East and West is West?: Towards a comparative sociocultural history of the Cold War 2. The Man Who Invented Truth: The tenure of Edward R. Murrow as director of the United States Information Agency during the Kennedy years 3. Soviet Cinema in the Early Cold War 4. Future Perfect?: Communist science fiction in the Cold War 5. The Education of Dissent: Radio free Europe and Hungarian society, 1951-56 6. The Debate over Nuclear Refuge 7. Some Writers Are More Equal Than Others: George Orwell, the state and Cold War propaganda