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Britain’s Cold War: Culture, Modernity and the Soviet Threat
Nicholas Barnett
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Description for Britain’s Cold War: Culture, Modernity and the Soviet Threat
Hardcover. The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterised as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; HBTW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the US and Soviet administrations have since remarked how far off the mark their predictions of the other’s strengths and aims were. Yet so much of the cultural output of the period – in television, film, and literature – was concerned with the end of the world. Here, Nicholas Barnett looks at art and design, opinion polls, the Mass Observation movement, popular fiction and newspapers to show how exactly British people felt about the Soviet Union ... Read more
The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the US and Soviet administrations have since remarked how far off the mark their predictions of the other’s strengths and aims were. Yet so much of the cultural output of the period – in television, film, and literature – was concerned with the end of the world. Here, Nicholas Barnett looks at art and design, opinion polls, the Mass Observation movement, popular fiction and newspapers to show how exactly British people felt about the Soviet Union ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784538057
SKU
V9781784538057
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Ref
99-10
About Nicholas Barnett
Nicholas Barnett is Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, where he specializes in the cultural history of the Cold War.
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