Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe (2007- )
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe (2007- )
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Broadcasting Freedom
Author: Arch Puddington
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813182654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Among America's most unusual and successful weapons during the Cold War were Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. RFE-RL had its origins in a post-war America brimming with confidence and secure in its power. Unlike the Voice of America, which conveyed a distinctly American perspective on global events, RFE-RL served as surrogate home radio services and a vital alternative to the controlled, party-dominated domestic press in Eastern Europe. Over twenty stations featured programming tailored to individual countries. They reached millions of listeners ranging from industrial workers to dissident leaders such as Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel. Broadcasting Freedom draws on rare archival material and offers a penetrating insider history of the radios that helped change the face of Europe. Arch Puddington reveals new information about the connections between RFE-RL and the CIA, which provided covert funding for the stations during the critical start-up years in the early 1950s. He relates in detail the efforts of Soviet and Eastern Bloc officials to thwart the stations; their tactics ranged from jamming attempts, assassinations of radio journalists, the infiltration of spies onto the radios' staffs, and the bombing of the radios' headquarters. Puddington addresses the controversies that engulfed the stations throughout the Cold War, most notably RFE broadcasts during the Hungarian Revolution that were described as inflammatory and irresponsible. He shows how RFE prevented the Communist authorities from establishing a monopoly on the dissemination of information in Poland and describes the crucial roles played by the stations as the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union broke apart. Broadcasting Freedom is also a portrait of the Cold War in America. Puddington offers insights into the strategic thinking of the RFE-RL leadership and those in the highest circles of American government, including CIA directors, secretaries of state, and even presidents.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813182654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Among America's most unusual and successful weapons during the Cold War were Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. RFE-RL had its origins in a post-war America brimming with confidence and secure in its power. Unlike the Voice of America, which conveyed a distinctly American perspective on global events, RFE-RL served as surrogate home radio services and a vital alternative to the controlled, party-dominated domestic press in Eastern Europe. Over twenty stations featured programming tailored to individual countries. They reached millions of listeners ranging from industrial workers to dissident leaders such as Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel. Broadcasting Freedom draws on rare archival material and offers a penetrating insider history of the radios that helped change the face of Europe. Arch Puddington reveals new information about the connections between RFE-RL and the CIA, which provided covert funding for the stations during the critical start-up years in the early 1950s. He relates in detail the efforts of Soviet and Eastern Bloc officials to thwart the stations; their tactics ranged from jamming attempts, assassinations of radio journalists, the infiltration of spies onto the radios' staffs, and the bombing of the radios' headquarters. Puddington addresses the controversies that engulfed the stations throughout the Cold War, most notably RFE broadcasts during the Hungarian Revolution that were described as inflammatory and irresponsible. He shows how RFE prevented the Communist authorities from establishing a monopoly on the dissemination of information in Poland and describes the crucial roles played by the stations as the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union broke apart. Broadcasting Freedom is also a portrait of the Cold War in America. Puddington offers insights into the strategic thinking of the RFE-RL leadership and those in the highest circles of American government, including CIA directors, secretaries of state, and even presidents.
America's Other Voice
Author: Sig Mickelson
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Cold War Radio
Author: Mark G. Pomar
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640125140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"Cold War Radio is a concise look at the history of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and their impact on the Soviet Union during the Cold War"--
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640125140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"Cold War Radio is a concise look at the history of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and their impact on the Soviet Union during the Cold War"--
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America :.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe (2007-2011)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
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Cold War Broadcasting
Author: A. Ross Johnson
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155211906
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The book examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from formerly secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155211906
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The book examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from formerly secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
Author: A. Ross Johnson
Publisher: Cold War International History
ISBN: 9780804773560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An examination of the workings of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty during the period in which the two broadcast organizations were covertly supported by the CIA.
Publisher: Cold War International History
ISBN: 9780804773560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An examination of the workings of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty during the period in which the two broadcast organizations were covertly supported by the CIA.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983746338
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America : soft power and the free flow of information : hearing before the Subcommittee on Europe of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 23, 2009.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983746338
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America : soft power and the free flow of information : hearing before the Subcommittee on Europe of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 23, 2009.
Subversion by Radio
Author: Artem Flegontovich Panfilov
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America: Soft Power and the Free Flow of Information, Serial No. 111-24, July 23, 2009, 111-1 Hearing, *
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
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