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Cold War Correspondents Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines
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- Summary
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"Fainberg examines how American and Soviet journalists covered the Cold War and interacted with one another during a tense period of relative peace. Foreign correspondents on both sides were keen o...
"Fainberg examines how American and Soviet journalists covered the Cold War and interacted with one another during a tense period of relative peace. Foreign correspondents on both sides were keen observers who aspired to understand their host country and interpret it for their home country. They were, however, influenced by their own cultural background, and their representations of the rival superpower were refracted through those cultural values"--
Details
- Creator
- Dina Fainberg
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (viii, 359 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781421438443, 1421438445, 1421438453
- OCLC
- on1273307199
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Battle of words -- Making "Soviet Restons" -- The heralds of truth -- Overtake America -- In Sputnik's shadow -- Notes from the rotten West -- Reports from the backward East -- Cold War correspondents confront old and new thinking -- Conclusion: Us and them
Subjects
- Cold War -- Press coverage -- Soviet Union.
- Cold War -- Press coverage -- United States.
- Foreign news -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Foreign news -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Foreign correspondents -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Foreign correspondents -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- United States.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1945-1991 -- Press coverage.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 -- Press coverage.
- Soviet Union -- Foreign public opinion, American.
- United States -- Foreign public opinion, Soviet.