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Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe

Autor Melissa Feinberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 aug 2020
While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within the confines of the Soviet worldview, their peoples confronted the narratives of both East and West. From the Soviet Union and its satellites, they heard of a West dominated by imperialist warmongers and of the glorious future only Communism could bring. A competing discourse emanated from the West, claiming that Eastern Europe was a totalitarian land of captive slaves, powerless in the face of Soviet aggression. In Curtain of Lies, Melissa Feinberg conducts a timely examination into the nature of truth, using the political culture of Eastern Europe during the Cold War as her foundation. Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1956, she looks at how the "truth" of Eastern Europe was delineated by actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Feinberg offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as a shared political environment, exploring the ways in which ordinary East Europeans interacted with these competing understandings of their homeland. She approaches this by looking at the relationship between the American-sponsored radio stations broadcast across the Iron Curtain and the East European emigres they interviewed as sources on life under Communism. Feinberg's careful analysis reveals that these parties developed mutually reinforced assumptions about the meaning of Communism, helping to create the evidentiary foundation for totalitarian interpretations of Communist rule in Eastern Europe. In bridging the geopolitical and the individual, Curtain of Lies provides a perspective that is both innovative in its methodology and indispensable to its field.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190087609
ISBN-10: 0190087609
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 7
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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I find Melisa Feinberg's book innovative and original and very important for our contemporary perspective.
Melissa Feinberg's Curtain of Lies is a provocative analysis of truth and fear in Eastern Europe during the early Cold War.
Feinberg's findings and their engaging, accessible, and well-structured delivery will benefit teachers and students of US history at least as much as those who are interested in Eastern Europe and the Cold War.
Melissa Feinberg has written an important and timely book.
Melissa Feinberg's fast-paced book, Curtain of Lies, delves into the question of truth as framed by the Cold War struggle in late Stalinist Eastern Europe. Based on an intriguing analysis of hundreds of Western interviews with East Europeans who fled the east for the west, Feinberg demonstrates that ideas of truth and falsehood emerged from a nexus of propaganda, counterpropaganda, radio broadcasting, and fantastic ideas of peace and war in West and East.
Written in clear, strong prose, Curtain of Lies delivers a fresh perspective on Cold War propaganda, revealing that the cliches of show trials and peace offensives articulated deep-set ideas about truth, belief, and fear.
The originality of Feinberg's research lies in her close attention to the lived experience of the participants in the 'battles for truth' across the Iron Curtain. She attends to the manufacturing of official propaganda by agentda of the state, as well as o the dilemmas of daily life in a world of half-truths, lies, and fear
A fresh perspective on the formation of Cold War political culture in post-war eastern Europe and the United States is provided by Melissa Feinberg's fascinating analysis of a topic that has been discussed by many scholars before.
Feinberg usefully draws attention to the extent to which communist rule depended on beliefs and culture as distinct from actual violence.

Notă biografică

Melissa Feinberg is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1950.