New publications and research on Cold War Broadcasting
Ross
Cold War Broadcasting Research Notes
November 1, 2018 Update
PUBLICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA
Curtain of Lies. The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe. By Melissa Feinberg. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017.
S. Musteaţă, „Soviet Moldova in the Radio Free Europe Broadcasting during the Cold War. Efim Crimerman’s (Singurel) contributions,” MemoScapes. Romanian Journal of Memory and Identity Studies, vol. 2, no. 2/May 2018, p. 90-115, ISSN 2558-8567. http://studii-memoriale.ro/index.php/ro/revista-memoscapes/revista-pdf/
Andrzej Mietkowski has produced the first six installments of a video series Cold War Archive in Polish:
1. Krucjata wolności / Crusade of Freedom https://vimeo.com/275532481/b51472b3eb
2. Pod kloszem cenzury / On Censorship https://vimeo.com/275563374/dcb7a03cca
3. Węgry’56. Stracone złudzenia / Hungary '56 https://vimeo.com/275568437/1333f25a61
4. Twórczość na wygnaniu / Culture in exile https://vimeo.com/275637224/ac71c3adc2
5. Sprawa Józefa Światły / Swiatlo story https://vimeo.com/275679495/92bf9ddfca
6. Paryska „Kultura” na celowniku / Targeting „Kultura" https://vimeo.com/275685102/ac40d1efef
Mark Lurie, Galantière - The Lost Generation's Forgotten Man, Overlook Press, 2018.
My endorsement on the book cover:
“This biography of Lewis Galantière is a valuable addition to the literature on personalities that shaped United States policy during World War II and the Cold War. Drawing on exhaustive archival research, the book examines Galantière’s career as French-language broadcaster on the wartime Voice of America and as author of influential contributions to Foreign Affairs and other policy journals at the outset of the Cold War. It traces in detail Galantière’s service at the Free Europe Committee and Radio Free Europe from 1950 to 1965, where he consistently counseled policies promoting evolution in Eastern Europe and clashed with other FEC officials espousing liberation. The book includes the texts of many key documents in the notes and is an indispensable guide to the history of Radio Free Europe in its early years.”
Ioana Macrea-Toma, “The Eyes of Radio Free Europe: Regimes of Visibility in the Cold War Archives,” East Central Europe 44 (2017) 99-127.
Yuliya Komska, “RFE/RL Broadcasting and West German Society: Caught between Nature Protection Activism and Anti-Americanism,” Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, summer 2018, pp. 180–206.
Review by A Ross Johnson of Lechosław Gawlikowski, Pracownicy Radia Wolna Europa: Biografie zwykłe i niezwykłe. Warsaw: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN, Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Panstwowy, 2015. 918 pp., Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 19, No. 4, Fall 2017, 254-256.
A Ross Johnson, “Managing Media Influence Operations: Lessons from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, V 31, no. 4, pp. 681-701, in press.
FUTURE PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Richard Cummings. Cold War Radio: The Dangerous History of American Broadcasting in Europe, 1950-1989, 2nd edition, McFarland, 2019, updated and with three new chapters.
Veronika Durin-Hornyik, “Free Europe University in Exile: An American Psychological Warfare Operation Targeting Youths from Soviet Satellite States in France, 1948-1958” (in French), Ph.D. dissertation, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, 2018.
Joanna Walewska, “Listening through the Iron Curtains: RFE and Polish Radio in the “Fog of War.”
Gene Parta, “A History of Soviet Area Audience and Opinion Research (SAAOR) at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)”
Nelson Ribeiro, “Broadcasting to the Soviet Satellite Countries during the Cold War
The Strategic Value of RARET for the Operations of Radio Free Europe”
Indra Ekmanis, “Signals of Revolution: Behind the Latvian Service of RFE/RL”
Inga Zaksauskiene, “RFE/RL Broadcasting to the Baltic States”