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Cold War correspondents : Soviet and American reporters on the ideological frontlines
Taken together, these sources illuminate a rich history of private and professional lives at the heart of the superpower conflict.
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Condensing the Cold War
By examining the changing ways in which Reader’s Digest has explained America and its relation to the world, Sharp exposes the links that the magazine has forged between the individual reader and the destiny of the United States, particularly as this relates to the Soviet Union, the Cold War enemy whose character the Digest is often credited with helping to create. Not about the Soviet Union per se, or about the historical details of any other threat to the United States, this is a book about America and the changing roles that this central voice of American mass culture envisioned for the country and its citizens. _x000B_
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Becoming a Cold Warrior: The Peregrinations of a Soviet Jewish Defector
Until September 1938, when the Soviet authorities began disassembling the system of Yiddish-medium education, most young entrants to literary careers were graduates of teachers’ training institutions. The life story of Hershl (Grigory) Vinokur, aka Herschel Weinrauch/Vaynroykh, stands out among the writers of that cohort. After graduating in Odesa as a Yiddish teacher in 1932, he worked as a journalist on Yiddish newspapers in Birobidzhan, the Jewish territorial unit in Russian Far East, and in Bialystok, annexed to Soviet Belorussia in 1939. His collections of Yiddish stories came out in Moscow and Minsk. A war veteran, he settled in Chernivtsi in 1944, worked as a teacher at one of the last remaining Yiddish schools, but in 1946 used counterfeit documents to emigrate to Poland, then Germany, and arrived in Israel together with Jewish displaced persons. Vinokur’s articles began appearing in
Forverts
(The Forward), the New York Yiddish daily, which helped him move to the United States. There he acted as an authoritative expert on Jewish life in the Soviet Union. His 1950 heavily autobiographical book
Blut oyf der zun: Yidn in Sovet Rusland
(Blood on the Sun: Jews in the Soviet Union) is referred to in scholarly and other publications. This article represents the first attempt to trace Vinokur’s tempestuous life and his input to the McCarthyist discourse of the 1950s. Although Vinokur had never become a major figure in the world of literature, culture, or politics, his life linked uniquely together important developments and moments in Jewish history of the twentieth century.
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Global Media Perspectives on the Crisis in Panama
Operation Just Cause, the United States' incursion into Panama, was the culmination of a gradually escalating confrontation between the United States and the Noriega dominated government of Panama that extended from June, 1987 until early January, 1990. Applying diverse methodological approaches, this volume examines the various ways representative examples of the global media covered the developing crisis and the eventual US incursion into Panama. The volume: - sets the stage for this analysis by delineating the chronological development of the escalating confrontation, as well as by examining the confrontation from the perspective of the US government - analyzes the crisis from the perspective of the US, Soviet, Canadian, French, Portuguese, Arab, and the People's Republic of China media - exposes the challenges for public affairs officers operating within the context of the global media response to international crises, and provides an assessment of the implications of the crisis for inter-American and international relations. This analysis and evaluation of a variety of global media perspectives on the escalating US-Panamanian confrontation will serve to better illuminate and further enrich our understanding of a major international event - indeed, one of the final events of the Cold War era.
Howard M. Hensel, Air War College, USA and Nelson Michaud, École nationale d'administration publique, Canada
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“Approaching an Abyss”: Liberalist Ideology in a Norwegian Cold War Business Paper
The international business press has been a powerful and influential voice in modern societies and, as its formative years took place during the Cold War, a closer look at the ideologies that were promoted in this part of the press is of interest. Until the 1970s, Farmand was the only Norwegian business magazine of any size and standing. Trygve J. B. Hoff, Farmand’s editor from 1935, was part of the Mont Pèlerin Society (MPS), a neoliberal intellectual collective established in 1947 with participants such as Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. This article is a study of the ideas that Hoff promoted, particularly in Farmand, from the 1940s to the 1970s.
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Soft news goes to war
The American public has consistently declared itself less concerned with foreign affairs in the post-Cold War era, even after 9/11, than at any time since World War II. How can it be, then, that public attentiveness to U.S. foreign policy crises has increased? This book represents the first systematic attempt to explain this apparent paradox. Matthew Baum argues that the answer lies in changes to television's presentation of political information. In so doing he develops a compelling \"byproduct\" theory of information consumption. The information revolution has fundamentally changed the way the mass media, especially television, covers foreign policy. Traditional news has been repackaged into numerous entertainment-oriented news programs and talk shows. By transforming political issues involving scandal or violence (especially attacks against America) into entertainment, the \"soft news\" media have actually captured more viewers who will now follow news about foreign crises, due to its entertainment value, even if they remain uninterested in foreign policy.
Baum rigorously tests his theory through content analyses of traditional and soft news media coverage of various post-WWII U.S. foreign crises and statistical analyses of public opinion surveys. The results hold key implications for the future of American politics and foreign policy. For instance, watching soft news reinforces isolationism among many inattentive Americans. Scholars, political analysts, and even politicians have tended to ignore the soft news media and politically disengaged citizens. But, as this well-written book cogently demonstrates, soft news viewers represent a largely untapped reservoir of unusually persuadable voters.
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