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Putting culture into the Cold War: the Cultural Relations Department (CRD) and British covert information warfare [PDF]

, 2003
In 1943 the British Foreign Office created an obscure outfit called the Cultural Relations Department (CRD), to manage the growing organization of intellectual, cultural, social and artistic contacts designed to promote Allied goodwill.
Aldrich, Richard J.
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Pawel Goral, Cold War Rivalry and the Perception of the American West [PDF]

, 2015
In his first monograph, Cold War Rivalry and the Perception of the American West, Pawel Goral, History lecturer at the University of Texas, Arlington, employs the myth of the American West as a critical lens to address the fascinating, albeit complex ...
Magrin, Alessandra
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Blurring Boundaries in the Cold War World [PDF]

, 2017
The cultural turn in Cold War scholarship which emerged in the 1990s explored the roles of governments and the hegemony of their ideas in waging a cultural Cold War, both domestically and internationally against an opposing ideology.
Barnett, N
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‘A Kind of Critique that Works by Allegorising’: An Interview with Patrick Wright [PDF]

, 2010
In the following interview Patrick Wright discuses the research for and critical receptions of his books, Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War, A Journey Through Ruins, On Living in an Old Country and Tank.
King, Noel
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Soviet Spy Cinema of the early Cold War in Context of the Soviet Cultural Politics

Esboços, 2016
The article is devoted to analyses of the Soviet cultural consciousness during the Cold War, which was refected in the genre of spy cinema and literature.
Viktoria Sukovata
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Years in Cultural Studies: 1990—Alliances from the Rubble

Lateral, 2020
At the dawn of the 1990s, the world was undergoing dramatic transformation—and cultural studies was no exception to this force. By looking at the Illinois conference, the Oklahoma conference, and the special issue of 'Cultural Studies' edited by Rosa ...
Kourtney M Maison, Katelyn E Brooks
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Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War Period

Društvene i Humanističke Studije
In addition to the massive arms race, the Cold War was psychological in winning over and attracting foreign individuals, groups, and governments. This study analyzes the very important role of cultural diplomacy in the Cold War, a period marked by ...
Hrustan Šišić
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“I’ve Got a Hunch We’re Going Around in Circles”: Exceptions to American Exceptionalism in Hollywood Korean War Films

American Studies in Scandinavia, 2017
Hollywood Korean War films primarily aimed at integrating American citizenry into national narratives of cohesion and teleology by displacing contradictions onto the exteriority of American identity. The films dismiss the Korean War as not worth fighting
Junghyun Hwang
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Berlin between past, present and future [PDF]

Facta Universitatis. Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2009
Berlin is one of the most interesting European cities. In the Cold War period, The Berlin Wall physically divided West Berlin and East Berlin for 28 years in period from August 1961 till November 1989.
Aranđelović Biljana, Pogacar Kaja
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The Education of dissent: the reception of the Voice of Free Hungary, 1951-1956 [PDF]

, 2003
Within the cultural history of the Cold War some attention has been paid to the history of western broadcasting to Soviet bloc countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Pittaway, Mark
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