Fear Management
Foreign Threats in the Post-War Polish Propaganda. The Influence and the Reception of the Communist Media (1944-1956)
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Fear Management
Foreign Threats in the Post-War Polish Propaganda. The Influence and the Reception of the Communist Media (1944-1956)
About this book
The so-called 'people's power' – the communists – tended to make Poles afraid. At first – afraid of the Anglo-Saxon imperialists, then of the German revisionists, Zionist 5th column and 'Kuro? and Michnik walking on the CIA's leash'. The creation of the atmosphere of fear featuring Germans and their alleged 'return' lasted until 1970. In his Fear Management Bruno Kami?ski reaches to the origins of this story. Based on a huge selection of sources this analytical study exhibits how in the first 15 postwar years Poles were threatened with the Western world. In the beginning, the Germans were chosen to play the role of the main enemy, dethroned later by the Americans. At the same time, the author proves that fear next to nationalism and ethnic hostility developed into one of the pillars legitimizing the communist system.
Marcin Zaremba, Polish Academy of Science, University of Warsaw
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright information
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I ‘German hydra is coming back to life’67. Anti-German media discourse – the benchmark image of the foreign enemy in the communist propaganda (1944–1956)
- II Greedy capitalists and aggressive neighbours. The local dimension of the German threat with the examples of Łódź and Szczecin (1945–1947)
- III The threat of spies, conspirators and internal enemies in the communist propaganda in Poland (1945–1953)
- IV Dangerous capitalists. The fear of the American economic enemy (1945–1956)
- V ‘Nazi racism is raging in the state of Mississippi’. The threat of intolerance, aggression and hooliganism inspired by Ame ican culture (1945–1956)
- VI The interwar state of mind. The fear of a new global conflict and the nuclear threat in the communist propaganda (1945–1956)
- General conclusions
- Afterword
- Abstract
- Abstrakt
- List of Figures
- Bibliography
- Indeks