Political Warfare against the Kremlin

LOWELL H. SCHWARTZ is a Political Scientist for the RAND Corporation, Pennsylvania, USA

• Introduction The Genesis of Britain's Anti-Communist Propaganda Policy The Initial Years of the Information Research Department The BBC Russia Service: Britain's White Propaganda Station (1946-1953) American Cold War Propaganda Policy During the Truman Administration The Early Years of Radio Liberty 1953-1960 American Cold War Propaganda Efforts during the First Eisenhower Administration Cultural Infiltration: A New Propaganda Strategy for a New Era of Soviet-West Relations Afterword

'Lowell Schwartz takes us back to those perilous early cold war days when the West possessed very little between its broadcast and the Bomb to influence and contain the Soviet Union and its satellites. This book is a real feat of reconstruction.' - Peter Hennessy, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London