Cold War Cultures

Annette Vowinckel received her doctorate from the University of Essen and her Habilitation from Humboldt University in Berlin. She is a specialist in cultural history of the Renaissance and the twentieth century. A researcher at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, she has recently published a book on the cultural history of skyjacking.

“Overall, then, this is an important contribution to European Cold War history which will hopefully find its way onto reading lists for courses on post-1945 European history.” · War in History“Cold War Cultures is an ambitious collection of essays by an interdisciplinary group of American and European scholars – including historians, sociologists, and cultural theorists… [that] makes a compelling case for why individual countries in Europe should be included in the historiography of the conflict.” · Canadian-American Slavic Studies“…this is a book for researchers, but I believe those who are interested in European culture from the 1950s to 1980s would appreciate these scholarly pieces as vivid explanations of its background. The editors have done a great job in combining such varied topics into a single volume.” · European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire“The collection is… invaluable in informing English-language readers how Czechs, Romanians, Russians, Swedes, Austrians, Italians, Slovenes, and (more than any other nationality) Germans experienced the travail of a divided continent.” · Journal of Cold War Studies “This is a very interesting edited collection of essays that makes a valuable and indeed a pathbreaking contribution to the study of an important emerging area… [It] offers a very original take on the [existing] literature in that it seeks to broaden the debate to ask questions about European Cold War Cultures, as opposed to the North American ones that have dominated the literature hitherto.” · Mark Pittaway, Open University, UK

• List of IllustrationsEuropean Cold War Culture(s)? An IntroductionAnnette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, Thomas LindenbergerPart I: Mediating the Cold War: Radio, Film, Television, and LiteratureChapter 1. East European Cold War Culture(s)? Alterities, Commonalities, and ReflectionsMarsha SiefertChapter 2.“We Started the Cold War”: A Hidden Message behind Stalin’s Attack on Anna AkhmatovaOlga Yurievna VoroninaChapter 3. Radio Reform in the 1980s: RIAS and DT-64 Respond to Private RadioEdward LarkeyChapter 4. The Enemy Within. (De-)Dramatizing the Cold War in U.S. and West German Spy TV of the 1960sMarcus M. PaykChapter 5. Cold War Television: Olga Korbut and the Munich Olympics of 1972Annette VowinckelPart II: Constructing Identities: Representations of the “Self”Chapter 6. Catholic Piety in the Early Cold War Years or: How the Virgin Mary Protected the West from CommunismMonique ScheerChapter 7. The Road to Socialism Paved With Good Intentions. Automobile Culture in the Soviet Union, the GDR and Romania During Détente.Luminita GatejelChapter 8. Advertising, Emotions, and “Hidden Persuaders”: The Making of Cold-War Consumer Culture in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960sStefan SchwarzkopfChapter 9. Survivalism in the Welfare Cocoon: The Culture of Civil Defense in Cold War SwedenMarie CronqvistPart III: Crossing the Border: Interactions with the “Other”Chapter 10. The Peace and the War Camps. The Dichotomous Cold War Culture in Czechoslovakia: 1948-1960Roman KrakovskyChapter 11. Artistic Style, Canonization, and Identity Politics in Cold War Germany, 1947-1960Joes SegalChapter 12. What Does Democracy Look Like? (And Why Would Anyone Want to Buy It?): Third World Demands and West German Responses at 1960s World Youth FestivalsQuinn SlobodianChapter 13. Drawing the East-West Border: Narratives of Modernity and Identity in the Julian Region (1947-1954)Sabina MiheljPart IV: The Legacies of the Cold War: Remembrance and HistoriographyChapter 14. A fifties revival? Cold War culture in re-unified GermanyAndrew BeattieChapter 15. The Mikson Case: War Crimes Memory, Estonian Identity. Reconstructions and the Transnational Politics of JusticeValur IngimundarsonChapter 16. The First Cold War Memorial in Berlin. A Short Inquiry into Europe, the Cold War, and Memory CulturesPetra HenzlerNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex