Across the Blocs: Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History (Cold War History)

ISBN 10: 0714655813 / ISBN 13: 9780714655819

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2004

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pp. 160.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Across the Blocs: Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History (Cold War History)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714655813
• ISBN 13: 9780714655819
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history. It makes cross-cultural comparisons of the socio cultural aspects of the Cold War across the East/West block divide, dealing with issues including broadcasting, public opinion, and the production and consumption of popular culture.

About the Author

Patrick Major is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick and author of The Death of the KPD: communism and anti-communism in West Germany, 1945-1956 (Oxford University Press, 1997). Rana Mitter is University Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China at Oxford University and author of The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China (University of California Press, 2000).