The War of Nerves
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The War of Nerves

Inside the Cold War Mind

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eBook - ePub

The War of Nerves

Inside the Cold War Mind

About this book

'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

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1. Individual or Collective – Two National Psyches
  7. 2. Two Nations; Two Missions
  8. 3. Kissing Stalin’s Bum
  9. 4. Yalta and the Psychology of Betrayal
  10. 5. Potsdam and Paranoia
  11. 6. Stalin the Neurotic
  12. 7. The Long Telegrams
  13. 8. Threats and Mind Readers
  14. 9. War by Inadvertence
  15. 10. Trouble among Socialist Friends
  16. 11. Stalin’s Ghost – Memory, Fear and the Monster from the Grave
  17. 12. A Psychological Vacuum
  18. 13. The Secret Speech and the Psychology of the Crowd
  19. 14. Psychological Warfare
  20. 15. McCarthyism and Witch-Hunts
  21. 16. Brainwashing
  22. 17. Sputnik and the Psychology of Fear
  23. 18. The Kitchen: Competing Utopias
  24. 19. Bricks in the Wall
  25. 20. The Space Race
  26. 21. Brinkmanship
  27. 22. Duck and Cover
  28. 23. Disinformation
  29. 24. Double Agents, Double Dealing, Doublethink
  30. 25. Inventing the Enemy in Books and Film
  31. 26. Art, Posters and Jokes
  32. 27. Music
  33. 28. Religion
  34. 29. Falling Dominoes
  35. 30. They Took Away Your Mind – Control through Silence
  36. 31. The Psychology of the Front Line
  37. 32. The Madman and Détente
  38. 33. Reagan’s Epiphany
  39. 34. The Wall Torn Down
  40. 35. The Evil Empire is No More
  41. 36. The Misuses of Memory
  42. Notes and Selected Bibliography
  43. Illustration Credits
  44. Index