Political Warfare against the Kremlin

US and British Propaganda Policy at the Beginning of the Cold War

Lowell H. Schwartz

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781349306664, 9780230221147
• eBook ISBN: 9780230236936
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Political Warfare against the Kremlin provides a comparative studyand holistic review of American and British propaganda policy toward the Soviet Union during the first fifteen years of the Cold War, ranging from the role senior policymakers played in setting propaganda policy to the West's radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 The Genesis of Britain’s Anti-Communist Propaganda Policy
• 2 The Initial Years of the Information Research Department: The Organization and Strategy of Britain’s Political Warfare Effort
• 3 The BBC Russia Service: Britain’s White Propaganda Station (1946–53)
• 4 American Cold War Propaganda Policy during the Truman Administration
• 5 The Early Years of Radio Liberty, 1953–60
• 6 American Cold War Propaganda Efforts during the First Eisenhower Administration
• 7 Cultural Infiltration: A New Propaganda Strategy for a New Era of Soviet–West Relations
• Afterword: The Role of Propaganda in the Cold War and Its Implications Today
• Appendix: Chronology of Propaganda Institutions and Wider Cold War Developments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index