Propaganda and Psychological Warfare

Terence H. Qualter

• Publisher: Burtyrki Books
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781839743047
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

There have always been propagandists, some extremely skilled, but the continuing, institutionalized, large-scale attempt at mass political persuasion is a modern phenomenon, not fully developed before the First World War. The study of propaganda is even more recent for, apart from a few pioneering works at the turn of the present century, very little was written before 1930. Professor Qualter discusses the historical development and use, up to and including the Cold War era, of the deliberate attempts by political groups to use propaganda to "form, control, or alter the attitudes of other groups."

A GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

There is an extensive literature on every aspect of propaganda and public opinion control. The selection of titles listed below will serve to introduce the reader to this literature.

ALBIG, WILLIAM. Modern Public Opinion. New York: McGraw Hill, 1956, 518 pp.

BARGHOORN, F. C. The Soviet Image of the United States: A Study in Distortion. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950, 297 pp.

BARRETT, E. W. Truth is Our Weapon. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953, 355 pp.

BERELSON, BERNARD and JANOWITZ, M. (eds.). Reader in Public Opinion and Communication (Enlarged Edition). Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1953, 611 pp. Reprints over fifty papers, some of them otherwise difficult to acquire.

BRAMSTED, E. “Joseph Goebbels and National Socialist Propaganda 1926-1939: Some Aspects,” Australian Outlook, VIII (1954), pp. 65-93.

BROWN, H. C. “Advertising and Propaganda: A Study in the Ethics of Social Control,” International Journal of Ethics, XL (1929), pp. 39-55.

BROWNRIGG, D. E. R. Indiscretions of the Naval Censor. London and New York: Cassell, 1920, 279 pp.

BRUNTZ, G. G. Allied Propaganda and the Collapse of the German Empire in 1918. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1938, 246 pp.

CANTRIL, HADLEY and ALLPORT, G. W. The Psychology of Radio. New York: Harper & Bros., 1935, 276 pp. Comments on the effects of radio in inducing social conformity.

CARR, E. H. The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939. London: Macmillan, 1946. See especially pp. 132-145, “Power Over Opinion.”

CHAFEE, ZECHARIAH. Government and Mass Communications. (Two volumes). Chicago, Illinois: University Press, 1947, 830 pp. A Report from the Commission on Freedom of the Press.

СНАKОТIL, SERGE. The Rape of the Masses: The Psychology of Totalitarian Political Propaganda. London: The Labour Book Service, 1940.

CHILDS, H. C. (ed.). “Pressure Groups and Propaganda,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, CLXXIX, 1935, 239 pp.

——. Propaganda and Dictatorship. Princeton, New Jersey: University Press, 1936, 153 pp. A collection of papers on propaganda in various authoritarian countries.

CREEL, GEORGE. HOW We Advertised America: The First Telling of the Amazing Story of the Committee on Public Information that Carried the Gospel of Americanism to Every Corner of the Globe. New York: Harper & Bros., 1920, 466 pp.

CROSSMAN, R. H. S. The God That Failed. New York: Harper & Bros. 1950, 273 pp.

DODGE, R. “Psychology of Propaganda,” Religious Education, XV (1920), pp. 241-252.

DOOB, L. W. Propaganda, Its Psychology and Technique. New York: Henry Holt, 1935, 424 pp.

——. Public Opinion and Propaganda. London: Cresset Press, 1949, 600 pp.

FARAGO, LADISLAS (ed.). German Psychological Warfare. New York: Committee for National Morale, 1941, 302 pp., including annotated bibliograp...

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• Preface
• Introduction
• Propaganda and Psychological Warfare
• One - THE THEORY OF PROPAGANDA
• Two -THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROPAGANDA
• Three - PROPAGANDA AT WAR
• Four - THE TECHNIQUES OF PROPAGANDA
• Five - PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
• Six - PROPAGANDA IN TWO SOCIETIES
• A GUIDE TO FURTHER READING