Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53

Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53 PDF Author: Andrew Defty
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131779169X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
In the Cold War battle for hearts and minds Britain was the first country to formulate a coordinated global response to communist propaganda. In January 1948, the British government launched a new propaganda policy designed to 'oppose the inroads of communism' by taking the offensive against it.' A small section in the Foreign Office, the innocuously titled Information Research Department (IRD), was established to collate information on communist policy, tactics and propaganda, and coordinate the discreet dissemination of counter-propaganda to opinion formers at home and abroad.