Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Machineries of Persuasion: European Soft Power and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War 1
4. A “Many-Coloured Prism”: Exhibiting Polish National Identities in Cold War Britain 17
5. Selling a Dictatorship on the Stage: “Festivales de España” as a Tool of Spanish Public Diplomacy during the 1960s and 1970s 39
6. Playing to Win: The Moscow Olympics and the Augmentation of Soviet Soft Power during the Brezhnev Era, 1975–1980 61
7. Resetting the Relevance of the Berlin Wall. German Public Diplomacies on the African Continent During the Cold War 85
8. Youth Brigadiers at the Railway – Personal Perspectives on Tito’s Yugoslavia in the Making 105
9. “Fighting for Peace is Everyone’s Job”: The Independent Peace Movement in the USSR and the Soviet View of Public Diplomacy in the 1980s 121
10. Next Stop Soviet: People to People Diplomacy during Glasnost 147
11. The Eurovision Song Contest as Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War: Transmitting Western Attractiveness 171
12. “On a Scooter Journey to the Zone Border”. Danish Tourists in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s 191
13. Bibliography 209