American Propaganda, Swedish Labor, and the Swedish Press in the Cold War: The United States Information Agency (USIA) and Co-Production of U.S. Hegemony in Sweden during the 1950s and 1960s

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Nilsson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Information Agency ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Cold War

scholarly journals The forgotten process: Information disarmament in the Soviet/US reproachment of the 1980s

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-272
Author(s):  
Nicholas Cull ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
United States Information Agency ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Cold War

This article contends that just as an excess of conventional arms requires a disarmament processes, so the weaponization of media should be met with an information disarmament process. The article examines elements of this work deployed to assist in the US — Soviet rapprochement of the 1980s. Cases discussed include a mutual textbook review project, citizento-citizen conferences mounted by the Chautauqua Society and a series of forums held via satellite television links called Spacebridges. The emergence of government-to-government information talks in which the United States Information Agency led by Charles Z.Wick engaged various elements of the Soviet state media apparatus is traced. The meetings from 1986 through 1989 are summarized, including the frank discussion of the challenge of disinformation and of mutual stereotyping. It is asserted that this process was more effective than is generally remembered, but success required a rough symmetry within the US/Soviet relationship. The internal crisis within the USSR repositioned the country as a junior partner and led the US to misperceive the end of the Cold War in terms of victory and defeat, with counterproductive results.

The United States, Tibet, and the Cold War

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvyn C. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Financial Aid ◽  
The United States ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

This article examines U.S. policy toward Tibet from the end of the 1940s to the end of the 1980s, especially the 1950s and 1960s. U.S. policy during this period operated on two levels. At the strategic level, the United States consistently supported China's claim of sovereignty over Tibet. But at the tactical level, U.S. policy varied a great deal over time, ranging from the provision of military and financial aid to Tibetan guerrilla forces in the 1950s and 1960s to the almost complete lack of official attention to Tibet in the 1970s and early 1980s. The article explains why the U.S. government has never accepted Tibet's claim to independence and why the question of Tibet, after falling into obscurity in the 1970s, reemerged on the U.S. agenda in the mid- to late 1980s. The article highlights the cynicism that has often characterized tactical shifts in U.S. policy.

Cold War “Bridge-Building”: U.S. Exchange Exhibits and Their Reception in the Soviet Union, 1959–1967

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Tolvaisas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
United States Information Agency ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Bridge Building

Following the presentation of the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959, nine exhibits organized by the United States Information Agency traveled in the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1967. This article discusses the aims, preparation, content, and reception of these exhibits, which attracted more than five million visitors and provoked diverse reactions. The exhibitions and their guides served as a unique form of communication with Soviet citizens, informing them about U.S. achievements and freedoms and the American way of life. The initiatives offset Soviet Communist propaganda, advanced popular understanding of the United States, and promoted popular goodwill toward Americans. The low-key interactions between the guides and the visitors shed valuable light on the mindset and experiences of ordinary citizens in the USSR, who were a major target audience of these exhibitions, and also, more broadly, on U.S. public diplomacy during the Cold War.

scholarly journals Pointy Bras and Loose House Dresses: Female Dress in Hungary and the United States in the 1950s

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Katalin Medvedev
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The United States ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Cold War

This paper is a comparative study of the social, ideological and economic differences between the United States and Hungary during the 1950s through the examination of the expressive features of female dress. It argues that dress served as a significant means of conveying the major divisions between the two countries and demonstrates that the female body became one of the crucial sites for waging the everyday battles of the Cold War opponents. Because less information is available about the construction of gender and the sartorial practices of women in Hungary in the 1950s this paper primarily focuses on Hungary. Data for this paper was collected through oral histories, archival sources and through the examination of contemporary photographic images.

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