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War of Words is a volume of essays on the role of propaganda, mass
media and culture in the development of the Cold War in Europe.
Exploring a dimension of the political and diplomatic rivalry of
interest to historians principally in the last decade, these essays
explore the cultural dimensions of the early Cold War. The powers
felt it necessary to explain and justify to Europeans the division
of the continent into two hostile blocs and to mobilise them behind
these reinvented European identities, by drawing on elements of
national tradition while at the same time invoking modernity. The
mass media and popular culture (whose penetration into parts of
Eastern and South Eastern Europe was still relatively recent) were
harnessed to the demands of propaganda. Even the built environment
was mobilised to this end. The antithetical character of the two
blocs was not in all respects as absolute as it seemed at the time.
Similar cultural and social trends influenced the politics of
culture on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This book examines some
of these similarities and parallels as well as the intentions and
articulation of official policy.
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