Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961

During the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, Washington policymakers aspired to destabilize the Soviet and East European Communist Party regimes by implementing programs of psychological warfare and gradual cultural infiltration. In focusing on American propaganda and cultural infiltration of the Soviet empire in these years, Parting the Curtain emerges as a groundbreaking study of certain aspects of US Cold War diplomacy never before examined.

Author: Na Na
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 02/12/1997
Pages: 283
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.82w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780312160807

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/1997 pg. 94

About the Author
Walter L. Hixson is Professor of History at the University of Akron.