The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term Cold War Culture is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences, social practices, and symbolic representations as they shape, and are shaped by, international relations. Yet, it remains in question whether or to what extent the Cold War Culture model can be applied to European societies, both in the East and the West. While every European country had to adapt to the constraints imposed by the Cold War, individual development was affected by specific conditions as detailed in these chapters. This volume offers an important contribution to the international debate on this issue of the Cold War impact on everyday life by providing a better understanding of its history and legacy in Eastern and Western Europe.

Thomas Lindenbergerreceived his doctorate from the Technical University Berlin and his Habilitation from Potsdam University. He was a research director at the Potsdam Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung and is currently the director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres in Vienna. He has held guest professorships at EHESS Paris, CEU Budapest and Vienna University.

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European Cold War Culture(s)? An IntroductionAnnette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, Thomas Lindenberger

Part I: Mediating the Cold War: Radio, Film, Television, and Literature

Chapter 1. East European Cold War Culture(s)? Alterities, Commonalities, and ReflectionsMarsha Siefert

Chapter 2.We Started the Cold War: A Hidden Message behind Stalins Attack on Anna AkhmatovaOlga Yurievna Voronina

Chapter 3. Radio Reform in the 1980s: RIAS and DT-64 Respond to Private RadioEdward Larkey

Chapter 4. The Enemy Within. (De-)Dramatizing the Cold War in U.S. and West German Spy TV of the 1960sMarcus M. Payk

Chapter 5.Cold War Television: Olga Korbut and the Munich Olympics of 1972Annette Vowinckel

Part II: Constructing Identities: Representations of the Self

Chapter 6.Catholic Piety in the Early Cold War Years or: How the Virgin Mary Protected the West from CommunismMonique Scheer

Chapter 7. The Road to Socialism Paved With Good Intentions. Automobile Culture in the Soviet Union, the GDR and Romania During Détente.Luminita Gatejel

Chapter 8. Advertising, Emotions, and Hidden Persuaders: The Making of Cold-War Consumer Culture in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960sStefan Schwarzkopf

Chapter 9. Survivalism in the Welfare Cocoon: The Culture of Civil Defense in Cold War SwedenMarie Cronqvist

Part III: Crossing the Border: Interactions with the Other

Chapter 10. The Peace and the War Camps. The Dichotomous Cold War Culture in Czechoslovakia: 1948-1960Roman Krakovsky

Chapter 11. Artistic Style, Canonization, and Identity Politics in Cold War Germany, 1947-1960Joes Segal

Chapter 12.What Does Democracy Look Like? (And Why Would Anyone Want to Buy It?): Third World Demands and West German Responses at 1960s World Youth FestivalsQuinn Slobodian

Chapter 13. Drawing the East-West Border: Narratives of Modernity and Identity in the Julian Region (1947-1954)Sabina Mihelj

Part IV: The Legacies of the Cold War: Remembrance and Historiography

Chapter 14. A fifties revival? Cold War culture in re-unified GermanyAndrew Beattie

Chapter 15.The Mikson Case: War Crimes Memory, Estonian Identity. Reconstructions and the Transnational Politics of JusticeValur Ingimundarson

Chapter 16. The First Cold War Memorial in Berlin. A Short Inquiry into Europe, the Cold War, and Memory CulturesPetra Henzler

Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index