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Radio Free Europe - An Insider's View (Paperback)
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Radio Free Europe - An Insider's View (Paperback)
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Loot Price R589
Discovery Miles 5 890
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This is the story of the critical role played by Radio Free Europe
during the Cold War, as recounted by veteran RFE official J. F.
Brown, who served as director from 1978 to 1983. Jim Brown had
written about Eastern Europe from RFE, but never about RFE until he
wrote this book. He conveys his understanding of how Radio Free
Europe functioned as a decentralized organization that empowered
exiles, while also conveying what it, and they, could and could not
offer East European listeners. Jim Brown's explanations of the
function of the central news department as an internal news agency,
of discussions with and trust of exile broadcast chiefs, of RFE's
cautious approach to broadcasting to Poland under martial law after
1981 to cite only three examples from the book illuminate the
editorial policies and internal relationships that made RFE a
success. His portraits of key personalities over the years help us
understand that RFE was not just an institution; it was a unique
multinational group of people. (From the "Foreword" by A. Ross
Johnson). "The historical analysis Brown brings is extremely
valuable and adds the insight of a first rate analyst to such
topics as the contrast between how RFE handled the Hungarian and
Polish events of the 1950s, the 'Czech spring' in 1968, the Gomulka
period in Poland, the developing independence of Ceausescu's
Romania, etc. All are given perceptive treatment." Eugene R. Parta,
author with A. Ross Johnson of Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. A Collection of Studies and
Documents. "I know of no other books on RFE by an insider who had
so much experience with the Radios and how they were operated. It
is] very well written, well organized, and a fascinating read."
-Yale Richmond, cultural affairs officer, U.S. Foreign Service
(ret.), author of Practicing Public Diplomacy: A Cold War Odyssey.
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