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Fighting the Cold War in post-blockade, pre-wall Berlin : behind enemy lines
- Title
- Fighting the Cold War in post-blockade, pre-wall Berlin : behind enemy lines / Mark Fenemore.
- Author
- Fenemore, Mark
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 263 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 / 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."--
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in modern European history
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in modern European history.
- Alternative Title
- Behind enemy lines
- Subjects
- Political culture
- Germany
- Berlin (Germany) > History > 1945-1990
- 1900-1999
- Germany > Politics and government > 1945-1990
- Political culture > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century
- Politics and government
- Germany > Berlin
- History
- Cold War > Social aspects > Germany
- Germany > History > 1945-1955
- Social aspects
- Cold War (1945-1989)
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Brinkmanship and intransigence at the frontier -- Enclaves and exclaves -- S-Bahn incidents -- The paramilitary response to threatened invasions -- Policing demonstrations and protests near the border -- Illicit smuggling -- Wanderers between two worlds -- The murky world of espionage -- The art of kidnapping -- Impact of the Berlin Wall.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1738
- ISBN
- 9780367194413
- 0367194414
- LCCN
- 2019024742
- OCLC
- 1099833175
- Author
- Fenemore, Mark, author.
- Title
- Fighting the Cold War in post-blockade, pre-wall Berlin : behind enemy lines / Mark Fenemore.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in modern European historyRoutledge studies in modern European history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Fighting the Cold War in post-blockade, pre-wall Berlin New York : Routledge, 2020. 9780429510991 (DLC) 2019024743
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1738