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The war of nerves : inside the cold war mind
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- ISBN: 9781639361816
- ISBN: 1639361812
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Physical Description:
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xiii, 577 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | Includes index. "The notes and selected bibliography of this book are available online at www.profilebooks.com/work/the-war-of-nerves/." -- Page [555] |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Individual or collective: two national psyches -- Two nations; two missions -- Kissing Stalin's bum -- Yalta and the psychology of betrayal -- Potsdam and paranoia -- Stalin the neurotic -- The long telegrams -- Threats and mind readers -- War by inadvertence -- Trouble among socialist friends -- Stalin's ghost: memory, fear, and the monster from the grave -- A psychological vacuum -- The secret speech and the psychology of the crowd -- Psychological warfare -- McCarthyism and witch-hunts -- Brainwashing -- Sputnik and the psychology of fear -- The kitchen: competing utopias -- Bricks in the wall -- The space race -- Brinkmanship -- Duck and cover -- Disinformation -- Double agents, double dealing, doublethink -- Inventing the enemy in books and film -- Art, posters, and jokes -- Music -- Religion -- Falling dominoes -- They took away your mind: control through silence -- The psychology of the front line -- The madman and détente -- Reagan's epiphany -- The wall torn down -- The evil empire is no more -- The misuses of memory. |
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