Political Warfare against the Kremlin

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2. Introduction

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3. The Genesis of Britain’s Anti-Communist Propaganda Policy

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4. The Initial Years of the Information Research Department: The Organization and Strategy of Britain’s Political Warfare Effort

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5. The BBC Russia Service: Britain’s White Propaganda Station (1946–53)

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6. American Cold War Propaganda Policy during the Truman Administration

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7. The Early Years of Radio Liberty, 1953–60

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8. American Cold War Propaganda Efforts during the First Eisenhower Administration

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9. Cultural Infiltration: A New Propaganda Strategy for a New Era of Soviet—West Relations

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10. Afterword: The Role of Propaganda in the Cold War and Its Implications Today

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11. Back Matter

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Political Warfare against the Kremlin  provides a comparative study and holistic review of American and British propaganda policy toward the Soviet Union during the first fifteen years of the Cold War, ranging from the role senior policymakers played in setting propaganda policy to the West's radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union.

• Britain
• Cold War
• communism
• liberty
• propaganda
• Radio
• Russia
• Soviet Union
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
• warfare

'Lowell Schwartz takes us back to those perilous early cold war days when the West possessed very little between its broadcast and the Bomb to influence and contain the Soviet Union and its satellites. This book is a real feat of reconstruction.'

- Peter Hennessy, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London

• RAND Corporation, USA

  Lowell H. Schwartz

LOWELL H. SCHWARTZ is a Political Scientist for the RAND Corporation, Pennsylvania, USA

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