Propaganda in the Cold War

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Deery, Phillip (2004) Propaganda in the Cold War. Social Alternatives, 23 (3). pp. 15-21. ISSN 0155-0306

Abstract

This article focuses on three activities of an anti-communist propaganda unit hidden within the British Foreign Office. Titled the Information Research Department, its initial strategy was to target influential elites and opinion makers, both local and international, whose words would encourage listeners and readers to look to London, not Moscow, for moral and ideological leadership. The article examines the IRD's attempts to construct a new Cold War lexicography, to manipulate the use of a Soviet defector for propaganda leverage, and to use sporting teams infiltrated by young Tories as propaganda tools in the East.

Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/2554
Subjects Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Social Sciences and Psychology
Historical > FOR Classification > 2103 Historical Studies
Keywords ResPubID7918, propaganda, anti-communist, anti-communist movements, communication in politics, cold war
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