This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history.

This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history. It makes cross-cultural comparisons of the socio cultural aspects of the Cold War across the East/West block divide, dealing with issues including broadcasting, public opinion, and the production and consumption of popular culture.

1. East is East and West is West?: Towards a comparative sociocultural history of the Cold War Patrick Major and
Rana Mitter 2. The Man Who Invented Truth: The tenure of Edward R. Murrow as director of the United States Information Agency during the Kennedy years Nicholas Cull 3. Soviet Cinema in the Early Cold War Sarah Davies
4. Future Perfect?: Communist science fiction in the Cold War Patrick Major
5. The Education of Dissent: Radio free Europe and Hungarian society, 1951-56 Mark Pittaway 6. The Debate over Nuclear Refuge David Seed
7. Some Writers Are More Equal Than Others: George Orwell, the state and Cold War propaganda Tony Shaw