TY  - GEN
AU  - Reisch,Alfred A.(Alfred Alexander)
TI  - Hot books in the Cold War: the West's CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Budapest, Hungary
PB  - Central European University Press
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Communist countries
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - European 6
KW  - Russia & Eastern
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Book distribution programs
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Propaganda, Anti-communist
KW  - Propaganda, International
KW  - Cold War
N1  - Published in 2013 by Central European University Press; Printed in Hungary by Akaprint Kft., Budapest; E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references and index; Origins, Objectives, and Launching of the Book Project Under Sam Walker -- Titles, Contents, Numbers, Targets, and Aims of the Mailings -- The Man in the Grey Suit. George C. Minden and his Concept of Cultural and Ideological Competition -- The New York Book Center. Books, Books, and More Books -- The Book Project Reaches New Heights. The Golden Age of the 1960s -- Western and Émigré Books and Periodicals Published with Covert Support -- New Opportunities Through East-West Contacts -- The Early 1970s. The International Advisory Council -- A Lasting Enemy -- The Communist Regimes on the Defensive: Criticisms, Warnings, and Attacks -- The Person-to-Person Distribution Program: A Direct Way to Reach East Europeans. The Early Polish Program 1958-1959 -- Another Vehicle for Reaching the People of Eastern Europe: the Personto-Person Distribution Program and Personalized Mailings -- The Most Important Book Distribution Point: Vienna -- Letters from Poland, the Crucial Country -- Letters from Czechoslovakia Before and After 1968 -- Letters from Hungary Under Goulash Communism -- Letters from Romania Under the Ceauşescu Regime -- Letters from Bulgaria Despite Very Strict Censorship -- The Last Seventeen Years: International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb32283
ER  -