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Curtain of Lies - The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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Curtain of Lies - The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within
the confines of the Soviet worldview, their peoples confronted the
narratives of both East and West. From the Soviet Union and its
satellites, they heard of a West dominated by imperialist
warmongers and of the glorious future only Communism could bring. A
competing discourse emanated from the West, claiming that Eastern
Europe was a totalitarian land of captive slaves, powerless in the
face of Soviet aggression. In Curtain of Lies, Melissa Feinberg
conducts a timely examination into the nature of truth, using the
political culture of Eastern Europe during the Cold War as her
foundation. Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1956, she looks
at how the "truth" of Eastern Europe was delineated by actors on
both sides of the Iron Curtain. Feinberg offers a fresh
interpretation of the Cold War as a shared political environment,
exploring the ways in which ordinary East Europeans interacted with
these competing understandings of their homeland. She approaches
this by looking at the relationship between the American-sponsored
radio stations broadcast across the Iron Curtain and the East
European emigres they interviewed as sources on life under
Communism. Feinberg's careful analysis reveals that these parties
developed mutually reinforced assumptions about the meaning of
Communism, helping to create the evidentiary foundation for
totalitarian interpretations of Communist rule in Eastern Europe.
In bridging the geopolitical and the individual, Curtain of Lies
provides a perspective that is both innovative in its methodology
and indispensable to its field.
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