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Introductory Readings

  • Appy, Christian G. (ed.), Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of UnitedStates Imperialism (Amherst, 2000).
  • Caute, David, The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War (Oxford, 2003).
  • Djilas, Milovan, The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System (London, 1957)
  • Havel, Vaclav, Living in Truth: Twenty-two Essays (London, 1987)
  • Hixson, Walter L., Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture and the Cold War, 1945-1961 (Basingstoke, 1997).
  • Leffler, Melvyn, The War for the Soul of Mankind (New York, 2007).
  • Major, Patrick and Mitter, Rana, ‘East is East and West is West: Towards a Comparative Sociocultural History of the Cold War,’ Cold War History, 4, no. 1 (October 2003), pp. 1-22.
  • Major, Patrick and Mitter, Rana, Across the Blocs: Cold War Cultural and Social History  (London, 2004).
  • Reid, Susan E., and Crowley, David (eds.), Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe (Oxford, 2000).
  • Ross, Corey, Constructing Socialism at the Grass-Roots: The Transformation of East Germany, 1945-65 (Basingstoke, 2000).
  • Saunders, Frances Stonor, Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London, 1999).
  • Thompson, E. P. et al., Exterminism and Cold War (London, 1982)
  • Whitfield, Stephen J., The Culture of the Cold War (Baltimore, 1991)
  • Wilford, Hugh, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?  (London, 2003).
  • Wilford, Hugh, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America (Cambridge, MA, 2007).
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