Bøger af Pawel Machcewicz

For the Soviet bloc the struggle against foreign radio was a principal front in the Cold War. Poland''s War on Radio Free Europe, 1950-1989, tells how Poland conducted this fight, a key part of the wider effort to control the flow of information and ideas.This is the first book in English to use the unique documents of Communist foreign intelligence operations so widely, and it also employes propaganda materials and personal interviews with RFE people and with party and security functionaries. The English translation reflects further discoveries of documentation since the original publication in Polish in 2007.

Offers a social history of the mass movements that prompted political change and altered Polish-Soviet relations in 1956 but avoided a Soviet armed response. This title focuses on the people's expression of grievances, and even riots - as opposed to 'top-level' activities such as internal Communist Party struggles.