Date: 2019
Type: Book
Fear management : foreign threats in the post-war Polish propaganda : the influence and the reception of the communist media (1944-1956)
Berlin : Peter Lang, 2019, Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in history, memory and politics ; 25
KAMINSKI, Bruno, Fear management : foreign threats in the post-war Polish propaganda : the influence and the reception of the communist media (1944-1956), Berlin : Peter Lang, 2019, Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in history, memory and politics ; 25
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/64385
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This book explores the fear management in Stalinist Poland. The main concept is interpreted as a top-down manipulation with media information referring to propaganda figures of 'German threat', 'American capitalist' or 'war provoker'. Using the methodology of history of emotions, the author examines social reception of the fear management policy.
Table of Contents:
-- Abbreviations
-- Introduction
-- I 'German hydra is coming back to life'. Anti-German media discourse - the benchmark image of the foreign enemy in the communist propaganda (1944-1956)
-- II Greedy capitalists and aggressive neighbours. The local dimension of the German threat with the examples of Łódź and Szczecin (1945–1947)
-- III The threat of spies, conspirators and internal enemies in the communist propaganda in Poland (1945–1953)
-- IV Dangerous capitalists. The fear of the American economic enemy (1945–1956)
-- V ‘Nazi racism is raging in the state of Mississippi’. The threat of intolerance, aggression and hooliganism inspired by American culture (1945–1956)
-- VI The interwar state of mind. The fear of a new global conflict and the nuclear threat in the communist propaganda (1945–1956)
-- General conclusions
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/64385
Full-text via DOI: 10.3726/b15648
Publisher: Peter Lang
LC Subject Heading: Fear; Political aspects; Poland; Propaganda, Communist; Mass media; Politics and government; 1945-1980
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/41785
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2016
