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Cold War broadcasting : impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe : a collection of studies and documents

"It was not a matter of propaganda ... black and white ideological broadcasts ... What made [Radio Free Europe] important were its impartiality, independence, and objectivity."--Vaclav Havel
eBook, English, 2010
Central European University Press, Budapest, 2010
History
1 online resource (xxv, 584 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781441677082, 9786155211904, 1441677089, 6155211906
671648365
Preface by Timothy Garton Ash Foreword Introduction PART ONE: GOALS OF THE BROADCASTS Chapter One: RFE's Early Years: Evolution of Broadcast Policy and Evidence of Broadcast Impact Chapter Two: Goals of Radio Liberty Chapter Three: The Voice of America: A Brief Cold War History PART TWO: JAMMING AND AUDIENCES Chapter Four: Cold War Radio Jamming Appendix A: Types of Jamming Appendix B: An Example of a Shortwave Broadcasting Station During the Cold War Chapter Five: The Audience to Western Broadcasts to the USSR During the Cold War: An External Perspective Chapter Six: The Foreign Radio Audience in the USSR During the Cold War: An Internal Perspective Chapter Seven: The Audience to Western Broadcasts to Poland During the Cold War Appendix C: Weekly Listening Rates for Major Western Broadcasters to Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and the USSR During the Cold War PART THREE: IMPACT OF WESTERN BROADCASTS IN EASTERN EUROPE Chapter Eight: Radio Free Europe in the Eyes of the Polish Communist Elite Chapter Nine: Polish Regime Countermeasures Against Radio Free Europe Chapter Ten: Radio Free Europe's Impact in Romania During the Cold War Chapter Eleven: Ceauşescu's War Against Our Ears Chapter Twelve: Just Noise? Impact of Radio Free Europe in Hungary Chapter Thirteen: Bulgarian Regime Countermeasures Against Radio Free Europe PART FOUR: IMPACT OF WESTERN BROADCASTS IN THE USSR Chapter Fourteen: Soviet Reactions to Foreign Broadcasting in the 1950s Chapter Fifteen: Foreign Media, the Soviet Western Frontier, and the Hungarian and Czechoslovak Crises Chapter Sixteen: Water Shaping the Rock: Cold War Broadcasting Impact in Latvia PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS Chapter Seventeen: Cold War International Broadcasting and the Road to Democracy PART SIX: DOCUMENTS FROM EAST EUROPEAN AND SOVIET ARCHIVES I. Regime Perceptions of Western Broadcasters II. Regime Countermeasures Against Western Broadcasters Contributors Glossary Index