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Book SynopsisForeign correspondents played a crucial role in promoting the ideas and values of the Cold War. As they brought the foreign world to their Soviet and American readers, these journalists projected their own ideologies onto their reporting. In an age of mutual acrimony and closed borders, journalists were among the few individuals who crossed the Iron Curtain. Their reporting strongly influenced the ways that policy makers, pundits, and ordinary people came to understand the American or the Soviet other. In Cold War Correspondents, Dina Fainberg examines how Soviet and American journalists covered the rival superpower and how two distinctive sets of truth systems, professional practices, and political cultures shaped international reporting. Fainberg explores private and public interactions among multiple groups that shaped coverage of the Cold War adversary, including journalists and their sources, editors, news media executives, government officials, diplomats, American pundits, So
Trade ReviewIn this extraordinarily thorough and insightful study, Fainberg identifies the similar approaches and practices used by Soviet and U.S. foreign correspondents reporting from each other's countries during the Cold War.
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Foreign AffairsThe research for this book is impressive.
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Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration
Introduction. A Battle of Words
Part One. Spiers versus Liars, 1945-1953
Chapter 1. Making "Soviet Restons"
Chapter 2. The Heralds of Truth
Part Two. Pens instead of Projectiles, 1953-1965
Chapter 3. Overtake America
Chapter 4. In Sputnik's Shadow
Part Three. Your Fight Is Our Fight, 1965-1985
Chapter 5. Notes from the Rotten West
Chapter 6. Reports from the Backward East
Part Four. A Moment of Truth? 1985-1991
Chapter 7. Cold War Correspondents Confront Old and New Thinking 00
Conclusion. Us and Them
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Archives
Notes
Bibliography
Index
