Radio Free Europe and the pursuit of democracy : my war within the cold war
A leading expert on East and Central European and Soviet affairs, George R. Urban offers an insider's perspective on the history of Radio Free Europe by drawing on his service during the 1960s and his term as overall director in the 1980s. In vivid detail, Urban describes how the Radios promoted the cause of liberal democracy and the free market economy for more than four decades and stood up against the Soviet system, with its clandestine offshoots and fifth columns in all the countries of the West. Urban contends that a second opponent was less visible but more powerful: influential members of the American and West European Left who believed that the Soviet superpower should not be thwarted. Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-313) and index. x, 322 pages ; 24 cm
- Urban, G. R. (George R.), 1921-
- NIOD Bibliotheek
- Text
- ocm36900977
- Radio in propaganda--History--20th century.
- Radio Free Europe--History--20th century.
- Cold War--History.
- International broadcasting--History--20th century.
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