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Poland's war on Radio Free Europe, 1950-1989 / Paweł Machcewicz ; translated by Maya Latynski.
Lippincott Library HE8697.85.P7 M3313 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Machcewicz, Paweł, 1966- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Monachijska menażeria. English
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Radio Free Europe.
- Radio broadcasting policy--Poland--History--20th century.
- Radio broadcasting policy.
- Radio broadcasting, Polish--History--20th century.
- Radio broadcasting, Polish.
- Freedom of the press--Poland--History--20th century.
- Freedom of the press.
- History.
- Poland--Politics and government--1945-1980.
- Poland.
- Politics and government.
- Poland--Politics and government--1980-1989.
- Political science.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 421 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C : Woodrow Wilson Center Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- For the Soviet bloc, the struggle against foreign radio was one of the principal fronts in the Cold War. Poland's War on Radio Free Europe, 1950-1989 describes how Poland conducted this fight, a key part of the wider effort "to control the flow of information and ideas, which largely determined the Communist regimes' ability to command their societies and to meet their political and ideological goals," according to Pawel Machcewicz This is the first book in English to use the unique documents of Communist foreign intelligence operations at length. It also employs propaganda materials and personal interviews with Radio Free Europe staff and collaborators and with Polish Communist party and security functionaries. This English translation reflects further discoveries of documentation since the original publication in Polish in 2007. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Radio Free Europe: Its Genesis and Its Place in the Cold War 13
- 2 Stalinism, 1950-1956 45
- 3 Wtadystaw Gomulka's Era, 1956-1970 82
- 4 Operation Olcha: The Security Service versus Radio Free Europe's Contacts in Poland 156
- 5 The Gierek Era, Détente, and a Massive Attack on Radio Free Europe, 1971-1975 181
- 6 From Helsinki to the Demise of Communism, 1975-1989 218.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Polish.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804792387
- 0804792380
- OCLC:
- 880237518
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