A new book of interest
Cold War Europe: A Space of Communication
Edited by Tobias Nanz and Hedwig Wagner
Contents
Introduction
I Infrastructure
Joanna Walewska-Choptiany, Wired Radio Spreads its Tentacles over the Country: The Development of a Wired Radio System in Post-War Poland
Tobias Nanz, European Crisis Communication: British and French Hotlines to Moscow as Means of
Disruption
Hedwig Wagner, (Telecommunication) Satellites – Celestial and Terrestrial Concepts of Europe
Johannes Pause , Stories of Rescue and Sacrifice: Cold War Cinema and the Arctic Imaginary
II Broadcasting
Luciana Radut-Gaghi. Radio Free Europe and Radio France Internationale: The Tones of Democracy and the Voices of Exiles
Thomas Wegener Friis and Nils Abraham, Creating an Alternative Public: Socialist Media and its Followers during the Cold War
Will Studdert, “Refined and Experienced Opponents?”: The BBC’s German East Zone Programme in the Cold War
Anna Mazurkiewicz and Anna Podciborska, “I Wanted to Know the Truth”: Listeners to Western Radio Broadcasts in Poland during the Cold War: A Pilot Study
III Circulation of European Ideas,
Bauer and Iulia-Karin Patrut, A Romanian Renegade: The Case of Petru Dumitriu,
Joanna Nowicki, “Fifteen Minutes with Jacek Kaczmarski” on Radio Free Europe (1983–1995): A Voice
Impossible to Scramble
Joanna Szylko-Kwas, “A Window onto the World”? On European Themes Presented in the Polish Przekrój Weekly Magazine
Camelia Beciu and Dana Popescu-Jourdy, Media and Catastrophic Events during the Cold War: Between Ideological Borders and Solidarity
