Enemy Number One

From Stalin's anti-American campaign to Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence policy, this book addresses the Soviet propaganda and ideology directed towards the United States during the early Cold War.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Note on Transliteration and Translation


• Introduction


• Part I. Stalin's Script for Anti-Americanism


• 1. The Anti-American Campaign, 1945-1953


• 2. American Sources of Information and Soviet Interest in the Enemy


• 3. Soviet-American Cultural Encounters in Late Stalinism


• Part II. Khrushchev and the Discourse of Peaceful Coexistence


• 4. From Anti-Americanism to Peaceful Coexistence


• 5. The Paradoxes of Peaceful Coexistence, 1956-1957


• 6. The Possibilities of Peaceful Coexistence, 1958-1959


• Epilogue


• Glossary


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Rósa Magnúsdóttir is Associate Professor of History at Aarhus University. She received her PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Summary

From Stalin's anti-American campaign to Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence policy, this book addresses the Soviet propaganda and ideology directed towards the United States during the early Cold War.

Additional text

Magnúsdóttir's succinct, concise writing style and clarity of argument make this work a clear asset to any undergraduate course in Cold War or Soviet history. This work provides a much-needed alternative view of the cultural Cold War from within the Soviet political system, and is ideal for enhancing students' understandings of the ideological battle for hearts and minds.

Product details

• Authors: R¿sa Magn¿sd¿ttir, Raosa Magnausdaottir, Rosa Magnusdottir, Rosa (Associate Professor of History Magnusdottir, Rósa Magnúsdóttir
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780190681463
• ISBN: 978-0-19-068146-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, History: specific events & topics, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Political Ideologies, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History: specific events and topics, History and Archaeology, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Political ideologies and movements, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)