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Fighting the Cold War in Post-Blockade, Pre-Wall Berlin - Behind Enemy Lines (Hardcover)
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Fighting the Cold War in Post-Blockade, Pre-Wall Berlin - Behind Enemy Lines (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
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As fought in 1950s Berlin, the cold war was a many-headed monster.
Winning stomachs with enticing consumption was as important as
winning hearts and minds with persuasive propaganda. Demonstrators
not only fought the police in the streets; they were swayed one way
or another by cultural competition. Western espionage agencies
waged brazen but surreptitious covert warfare, while the Stasi
fought back with a campaign of targeted kidnapping. This book takes
seriously a complex borderscape, which narrowed but did not stem
the flow of people, ideas and goods over an open boundary.
Assessing the licit and the illicit, the book stresses the messy
and entwined nature of this war of a thousand cuts (or miniscule
salami slices). While brinkmanship was orchestrated by the elites
in Moscow and Washington, the effects of such intense psychological
pressure were felt by ordinary Berliners, who sought to carry on
with their mundane, but border-straddling everyday lives in spite
of the ideological bifurcation.
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