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.
- Front cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface by the editors
- Foreword by Timothy Garton Ash
- Introduction by A. Ross Johnson
- PART 1: GOALS OF THE BROAD CASTS
- Chapter 1: RFE ’s Early Years: Evolution of Broadcast Policy and Evidence of Broadcast Impact
- Chapter 2: Goals of Radio Liberty
- Chapter 3: The Voice of America: A Brief Cold War History
- PART 2: JAMMING AND AUDIENCES
- Chapter 4: Cold War Radio Jamming
- Appendix A: Types of Jamming
- Appendix B: An Example of a Shortwave Broadcasting StationDuring the Cold War
- Chapter 5: The Audience to Western Broadcasts to the USSRDuring the Cold War: An External Perspective
- Chapter 6: The Foreign Radio Audience in the USSR Duringthe Cold War: An Internal Perspective
- Chapter 7: The Audience to Western Broadcasts to Poland During the Cold War
- Appendix C: Weekly Listening Rates for Major Western Broadcasters to Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and the USSR During the Cold War
- Part 3: IMPACT OF WESTERN BROADCASTS IN EASTERN EUROPE
- Chapter 8: Radio Free Europe in the Eyes of the Polish Communist Elite
- Chapter 9: Polish Regime Countermeasures against Radio Free Europe
- Chapter 10: Radio Free Europe’s Impact in Romania During the Cold War
- Chapter 11: Ceauşescu’s War against Our Ears
- Chapter 12: Just Noise? Impact of Radio Free Europe in Hungary
- Chapter 13: Bulgarian Regime Countermeasures against Radio Free Europe
- Part 4: IM PACT OF WESTERN BROADCASTS IN THE USSR
- Chapter 14: Soviet Reactions to Foreign Broadcasting in the 1950s
- Chapter 15: Foreign Media, the Soviet Western Frontier, and the Hungarian and Czechoslovak Crises
- Chapter 16: Water Shaping the Rock: Cold War Broadcasting Impact in Latvia
- Part 5: CONCLUSIONS
- Chapter 17: Cold War International Broadcasting and the Roadto Democracy
- Part 6: DOCUMENTS FROM EAST EUROPEAN ANDSO VIET AR CHIVES
- I. Regime Perceptions of Western Broadcasters
- Bulgaria
- German Democratic Republic
- Hungary
- Romania
- Poland
- USSR
- II . Regime Countermeasures against Western Broadcasters
- Soviet Bloc
- Bulgaria
- Czechoslovakia
- Hungary
- Poland
- USSR
- Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
- Back cover
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