Curtain of Lies - The Battle Over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe

Curtain of Lies tells the story of the struggle to define the truth of Eastern Europe between 1948 and 1956. It examines how actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain tried to create knowledge about Eastern Europe, and thus helped solidify the battle lines of the Cold War.

List of contents

• Introduction: Two Camps, Two Truths


• Chapter 1: Telling Lies, Making Truth


• Chapter 2: The Battle for Peace


• Chapter 3: Battling the Big Lie


• Chapter 4: That Funny Feeling Creeping Down Your Back


• Chapter 5: Soporific Bombs and American Flying Discs


• Chapter 6: The Power of the Powerless


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

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.

Summary

Curtain of Lies tells the story of the struggle to define the truth of Eastern Europe between 1948 and 1956. It examines how actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain tried to create knowledge about Eastern Europe, and thus helped solidify the battle lines of the Cold War.

Additional text

Feinberg usefully draws attention to the extent to which communist rule depended on beliefs and culture as distinct from actual violence.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Feinberg, Melissa (Associate Professor of History Feinberg, Feinberg Melissa
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9780190087609
• ISBN: 978-0-19-008760-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, Eastern Europe, Russia, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Political science & theory, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political science and theory, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Marxism & Communism, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era