Giles Scott-Smith

Western Anti-Communism and the Interdoc Network

Cold War Internationale

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Interdoc was established in 1963 by Western intelligence services as a multinational effort to coordinate an anti-communist offensive. Drawing on exclusive sources and the memories of its participants, this book charts Interdoc's campaign, the people and ideas that lay behind it and the rise and fall of this remarkable network during the Cold War.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-22126-0
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780230221260
• ISBN-10: 0230221262
• Artikelnr.: 35712086

Autorenporträt

GILES SCOTT-SMITH is a Senior Researcher with the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands. Since 2009 he has held the Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Transatlantic Relations since WW II at Leiden University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Communist Challenge Anti-Communism and PsyWar in the 1950s Building the Network A Dutch-German Cabal The European Web East-West Engagement and Interdoc Youth The Fallout from Ostpolitik Bringing the Americans Back In Interdoc Reconfigures - The 1970s and Detente Conclusion: Assessing the Legacy Bibliography Appendix I: Interdoc Conferences Appendix II: Interdoc Publications Appendix III: Interdoc Contacts in Eastern Europe Index

Rezensionen

"Scott Smith explores in close detail the main protagonists and the tremendous wealth of initiatives undertaken by Interdoc." - Jost Dülffer, Archiv FÜR Sozialgeschichte (translated from original German review)