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'Essential... endlessly fascinating... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' Forbes More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts, and fears. Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and unseen sources, Martin Sixsmith vividly recreates the tensions and paranoia of the Cold War, framing it for the first time from a psychological perspective. Revisiting towering personalities like Khrushchev, Kennedy and Nixon, as well as the lives of the unknown millions who were caught up in the conflict, this is a gripping account of fear itself - and in today's uncertain times, it is more resonant than ever.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Individual or Collective – Two National Psyches
- 2. Two Nations; Two Missions
- 3. Kissing Stalin’s Bum
- 4. Yalta and the Psychology of Betrayal
- 5. Potsdam and Paranoia
- 6. Stalin the Neurotic
- 7. The Long Telegrams
- 8. Threats and Mind Readers
- 9. War by Inadvertence
- 10. Trouble among Socialist Friends
- 11. Stalin’s Ghost – Memory, Fear and the Monster from the Grave
- 12. A Psychological Vacuum
- 13. The Secret Speech and the Psychology of the Crowd
- 14. Psychological Warfare
- 15. McCarthyism and Witch-Hunts
- 16. Brainwashing
- 17. Sputnik and the Psychology of Fear
- 18. The Kitchen: Competing Utopias
- 19. Bricks in the Wall
- 20. The Space Race
- 21. Brinkmanship
- 22. Duck and Cover
- 23. Disinformation
- 24. Double Agents, Double Dealing, Doublethink
- 25. Inventing the Enemy in Books and Film
- 26. Art, Posters and Jokes
- 27. Music
- 28. Religion
- 29. Falling Dominoes
- 30. They Took Away Your Mind – Control through Silence
- 31. The Psychology of the Front Line
- 32. The Madman and Détente
- 33. Reagan’s Epiphany
- 34. The Wall Torn Down
- 35. The Evil Empire is No More
- 36. The Misuses of Memory
- Notes and Selected Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index