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

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

edited by A. Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta ; foreword by Timothy Garton Ash

Central European University Press, 2010

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: [pbk.] ISBN 9786155225079

Description

The book examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from formerly secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.

Table of Contents

Preface by the editors Foreword by Timothy Garton Ash Introduction by A. Ross Johnson PART ONE: GOALS OF THE BROADCASTS Chapter One: RFE's Early Years: Evolution of Broadcast Policy and Evidence of Broadcast Impact, Paul B. Henze Chapter Two: Goals of Radio Liberty, Gene Sosin Chapter Three: The Voice of America: A Brief Cold War History, Alan L. Heil Jr. PART TWO: JAMMING AND AUDIENCES Chapter Four: Cold War Radio Jamming, George W. Woodard 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, R. Eugene Parta Chapter Six: The Foreign Radio Audience in the USSR During the Cold War: An Internal Perspective, Elena I. Bashkirova Chapter Seven: The Audience to Western Broadcasts to Poland During the Cold War, Lechoslaw Gawlikowski (with Yvette Neisser Moreno) 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, Jane Leftwich Curry Chapter Nine: Polish Regime Countermeasures Against Radio Free Europe, Pawel Machcewicz Chapter Ten: Radio Free Europe's Impact in Romania During the Cold War, Nestor Ratesh Chapter Eleven: Ceausescu's War Against Our Ears, Germina Nagat Chapter Twelve: Just Noise? Impact of Radio Free Europe in Hungary, Istvan Rev Chapter Thirteen: Bulgarian Regime Countermeasures Against Radio Free Europe, Jordan Baev PART FOUR: IMPACT OF WESTERN BROADCASTS IN THE USSR Chapter Fourteen: Soviet Reactions to Foreign Broadcasting in the 1950s, Vladimir Tolz (with Julie Corwin) Chapter Fifteen: Foreign Media, the Soviet Western Frontier, and the Hungarian and Czechoslovak Crises, Amir Weiner Chapter Sixteen: Water Shaping the Rock: Cold War Broadcasting Impact in Latvia, Peter Zvagulis PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS Chapter Seventeen: Cold War International Broadcasting and the Road to Democracy. A. Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta PART SIX: DOCUMENTS FROM EAST EUROPEAN AND SOVIET ARCHIVES I. Regime Perceptions of Western Broadcasters Bulgaria 1. 1977. Interior Ministry Analysis of Foreign Propaganda against Bulgaria 2. 1986. Interior Ministry Report on the Staff of the Bulgarian Service of RFE 3. 1989. Bulgarian Politburo Discussion on RFE Monitoring Reports German Democratic Republic 4. 1970. Stasi Report on West German Government's Attitude to RFE and RL Hungary 5. 1973. Report to Politburo and Politburo Resolution on Fight against "Imperialist Propaganda" 6. 1978. Hungarian Central Committee Discusses Implementation of 1973 Resolution Romania 7. 1964. Securitate Reports on RFE's Encouragement of Romanian Independence from USSR Poland 8. 1966. Letter from Army Main Political Administration to Interior Minister on "Hostile" Radio Propaganda 9. 1967. Foreign Intelligence Report on RFE 10. 1976. Analysis of Western Radio "Propaganda" Directed at Poland
Volume

: hardbound ISBN 9789639776807

Description

This book examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from once-secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.

Table of Contents

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: Ceausescu'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

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