Representation and Recoding: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cold War Cultures

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Rethinking, Representing, and Remembering the Cold War: Some Cultural Perspectives 1
5. Representation and Recoding: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cold War Cultures 19
6. Probing the Cold War Narrative since 1945: The Case of Western Europe 67
7. Changing Cold War Interpretations in Post-Soviet Russia 83
8. Company Confessions: The CIA, Whistleblowers and Cold War Revisionism 94
9. The Cold War in History Textbooks: A German-German, French and British Comparison 113
10. Machiavelli’s Angels Hiding in Plain Sight: Media Culture and French Spy Fiction of the Cold War 134
11. Enemies, Spies, and the Bomb 152
12. Remembering the American War in Vietnam 177
13. “The Cold War? I Have it at Home with my Family” 194
14. Protect and Survive 215
15. Berlin’s Gesamtkonzept for Remembering the Wall 239
16. Competing for the Best Wall Memorial 266
17. Contested Legacies 283
18. Select Bibliography 300
19. Name Index 302
20. About the Authors 307