Britain’s Cold War

Culture, Modernity and the Soviet Threat

AvNicholas Barnett

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The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the US and Soviet administrations have since remarked how far off the mark their predictions of the other's strengths and aims were. Yet so much of the cultural output of the period – in television, film, and literature – was concerned with the end of the world. Here, Nicholas Barnett looks at art and design, opinion polls, the Mass Observation movement, popular fiction and newspapers to show how exactly British people felt about the Soviet Union and the Cold War. In uncovering new primary source material, Barnett shows exactly how this seeped in to the art, literature, music and design of the period.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-30
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781786733733
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Nicholas Barnett is Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, where he specializes in the cultural history of the Cold War.

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Introduction Chapter 1 Between West and East: Fellow Travellers and British Culture in the Early Cold WarChapter 2 “No Defence Against the H-bomb”: British Society and H-bomb Hysteria in 1954 Chapter 3 Engagements with “the Thaw”Chapter 4 British public culture and the Soviet Invasion of Budapest, 1956Chapter 5 “Russia Wins Space Race”: Britain and the Launch of Sputnik, October 1957Chapter 6 The Thriller and the Cold WarChapter 7 Accidental Nuclear War and Anti-Nuclear CampaignsChapter 8 'The Greatest story of our lifetime': The successes and the limitations of Soviet ideologyChapter 9 The normalisation of relationsConclusion BibliographyIndex