Hot Books in the Cold War : The CIA-Funded Secret Western Book Distribution Program Behind the Iron Curtain

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Table of Contents Introduction by Mark Kramer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter 1 Origins, Objectives, and Launching of the Book Project Under Sam Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Chapter 2 Titles, Contents, Numbers, Targets, and Aims of the Mailings . . . . 23 Chapter 3 The Man in the Grey Suit. George C. Minden and his Concept of Cultural and Ideological Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Chapter 4 The New York Book Center. Books, Books, and More Books… . . . 55 Chapter 5 The Book Project Reaches New Heights. The Golden Age of the 1960s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Chapter 6 Western and Émigré Books and Periodicals Published with Covert Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Chapter 7 New Opportunities Through East-West Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 i5 Cold War.indb 7 2013.03.04. 13:37 viii Table of Contents Chapter 8 The Early 1970s. The International Advisory Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Chapter 9 A Lasting Enemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Part I: The Censors 1956 to 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Part II: The Censors 1969 to 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Chapter 10 The Communist Regimes on the Defensive: Criticisms, Warnings, and Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Chapter 11 The Person-to-Person Distribution Program: A Direct Way to Reach East Europeans. The Early Polish Program 1958–1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Chapter 12 Another Vehicle for Reaching the People of Eastern Europe: the Personto -Person Distribution Program and Personalized Mailings . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Chapter 13 The Most Important Book Distribution Point: Vienna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Chapter 14 Letters from Poland, the Crucial Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Chapter 15 Letters from Czechoslovakia Before and After 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 Chapter 16 Letters from Hungary Under Goulash Communism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Chapter 17 Letters from Romania Under the Ceauşescu Regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 Chapter 18 Letters from Bulgaria Despite Very Strict Censorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 Chapter 19 The Last Seventeen Years: International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 Conclusion The Impact of the Book Distribution Project and its Contribution to the Ideological Victory of the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527 Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537 Index of Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544 i5 Cold War.indb 8 2013.03.04. 13:37 ...