Hot Books in the Cold War : The CIA-Funded Secret Western Book Distribution Program Behind the Iron Curtain.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction by Mark Kramer -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Origins, Objectives, and Launching of the Book Project Under Sam Walker -- Chapter 2 Titles, Contents, Numbers, Targets, and Aims of the Mailings -- Chapter 3 The Man in the Grey Suit. George C. Minden and his Concept of Cultural and Ideological Competition -- Chapter 4 The New York Book Center. Books, Books, and More Books -- Chapter 5 The Book Project Reaches New Heights. The Golden Age of the 1960s -- Chapter 6 Western and Émigré Books and Periodicals Published with Covert Support -- Chapter 7 New Opportunities Through East-West Contacts -- Chapter 8 The Early 1970s. The International Advisory Council -- Chapter 9 A Lasting Enemy -- Part I: The Censors 1956 to 1968 -- Part II: The Censors 1969 to 1973 -- Chapter 10 The Communist Regimes on the Defensive: Criticisms, Warnings,and Attacks -- Chapter 11 The Person-to-Person Distribution Program: A Direct Way to Reach East Europeans. The Early Polish Program 1958-1959 -- Chapter 12 Another Vehicle for Reaching the People of Eastern Europe: the Person-to-Person Distribution Program and Personalized Mailings -- Chapter 13 The Most Important Book Distribution Point: Vienna -- Chapter 14 Letters from Poland, the Crucial Country -- Chapter 15 Letters from Czechoslovakia Before and After 1968 -- Chapter 16 Letters from Hungary Under Goulash Communism -- Chapter 17 Letters from Romania Under the Ceauşescu Regime -- Chapter 18 Letters from Bulgaria Despite Very Strict Censorship -- Chapter 19 The Last Seventeen Years: International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe,and the USSR -- Conclusion The Impact of the Book Distribution Project and its Contributionto the Ideological Victory of the West -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index of Names.

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