New publications on broadcasting and printed word programs

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New publications on RFE/RL and BBC broadcasts and on the Free Europe Committee

GDANSK SYMPOSIUM REPORT PUBLISHED

The Report of the September 2014 Gdansk Symposium

FROM FREE EUROPE TO FREE POLAND: FREE EUROPE COMMITTEE IN THE COLD WAR

is now available on the Wilson Center web site: 

http://wilsoncenter.org/event/free-europe-to-free-poland-free-europe-committee-the-cold-war

http://wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Gdansk%20Symposium%20Report_0.pdf

This report summarizes five panel discussions and the research/archives workshop of a symposium “From Free Europe to Free Poland: Free Europe Committee during the Cold War,” held at Gdańsk University on September 5-6, 2014.

 

NEW PUBLICATIONS ON COLD WAR RADIO BROADCASTS

Paweł Machcewicz, Poland’s War on Radio Liberty 1950-1989. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014, 421 p. $65.00.  A revised and updated English edition of his “Monachijska mena·zeria”: Walka z Radiem Wolna Europa (Warsaw: Instytut Pami˛eci Narodowej, ISP, 2007).

Alban Webb, London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold War (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Pp. x, 253).  A study of the BBC World Service, especially its relationship with the British Foreign Office, in the 1950s.

 

NEW PUBLICATIONS ON THE “BOOK PROGRAM”

Woodrow Wilson Center Cold War International History Program  e-Dossier No. 64 - CIA Covert Book Program: Book Programs in Poland.    Paweł Sowiński traces the CIA covert book program that funneled forbidden literature from West to East between 1956 and 1990. Sowiński focuses on the intermediaries, distributors, and smugglers who carried this contraband across borders.  CWIHP e-Dossier No. 64 - CIA Covert Book Program: Book Programs in Poland

 

Alfred Reich’s Hot Books in the Cold War has appeared in Polish as Alfred A. Reisch, Nieznany front zimnej wojny. Tajny program dystrybucji książek za żelazną kurtynę, Warszawa: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2015.  The Reich papers were donated to the Open Society Archive and a finding aid is available:  http://osaarchivum.org/db/fa/312.htm.  Reisch used in his research the papers of Free Europe Committee “book program” official John Matthews, available at the Hoover Institution Archives.