Book Diplomacy in the Cultural Cold War

Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, Ph.D. (2012), Rovira i Virgili University, is an independent scholar. Hisresearch covers book diplomacy, the intellectual history of modern Iran, andtranslation studies.Giles Scott-Smith is Professor of Transnational Relations and New Diplomatic History at Leiden University. His research covers a broad range of fields aroundpublic/cultural diplomacy and citizen diplomats.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsBook Diplomacy in the Cultural Cold War and beyond: An IntroductionEsmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam and Giles Scott-SmithPart 1 Book Diplomacy and Power in the International System1 Internationalism Meets the Cold War: Interwar Book Networks as Challenge to State PowerSteven W. Witt2 Professor Pearson Goes to Washington: Norman Holmes Pearson, U.S. Literature, and the Senior Seminar in Foreign PolicyDeborah Cohn3 Literature as a Weapon? Soviet Book Diplomacy, Soviet, and U.S. Literature in the Cultural Cold War between 1945 and 1964Alexander ErokhinPart 2 Publishers and Literary Agents4 Bringing Books to France: Literary Agents in Cold War Transnational Networks (1940s–1960s)Cécile Cottenet5 The Literary Agent as Book Diplomat: Erich Linder’s Agency in the Transnational Socialization of TamizdatIlaria Sicari6 Serving Two Masters: Cold War Book Diplomacy in 1960s GreeceChristos MaisPart 3 Translation and the Role of Translators7 Translation as a Tool of Soft Power: A Study of Franklin Book Programs’ Urdu Books in PakistanHafiz Abid Masood and Tahoor Ali8 Translating for Children during the Cold War: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in Franco’s Spain and Chairman Mao’s ChinaJulia Lin Thompson9 Publishing Translations from Russian in Italy during the Cold WarMila MilaniPart 4 Censorship, Propaganda and Informal Diplomacy10 Fighting with Words: The Role of Discourses in the Literary Field during the Cultural Cold War in the GDRHanna Blum11 Bellman Books: Selling a Favorable Image AbroadMusa Igrek12 Scientific American in the USSR: The Semi-Diplomatic Spaces of Soviet-American Publishing Relations, 1980–1984Rósa Magnúsdóttir and Birgitte Beck PristedIndex

"While the last twenty years have seen a number of important studies of howbooks were used as tools of cultural diplomacy in the Cold War, this volumebrings a heretofore unprecedented geographical breadth to the scholarshipon this topic. Ranging from Pakistan to Italy, from Greece to China, the nationsexamined by the scholars in this collection go far beyond the US, UK, USSR,and France, which have been the subjects of most of the research to date. Thecontributions are of a uniformly high level of scholarship and the organizationmakes good sense. The introductory literature review of the existing English languagescholarship on the topic is the best overview of the field I’m aware of.”– Greg Barnhisel, Duquesne University