Central and Eastern European Media under Dictatorial Rule and in the Early Cold War

Contents: Olaf Mertelsmann: Introduction - Chloé Stephenson: Fascist Interest in Soviet Cinema - Judith Devlin: A Case Study in Censorship: Stalin's Early Film Image - Inge Marszolek: Exploring NS-Propaganda as Social Practice - Olaf Mertelsmann: Trophy Films and Western Radio Broadcasting as a Window to the World in Post-war Estonia - Roland Graf: Writing for a Political Minority, Gaining the Majority of Readers: the 'Red Boulevard' in Austria 1945-1959 - Marietta Stankova: The Media and the Onset of the Cold War in Bulgaria 1944-1947 - Peter Gross: «The Tip of the Lance»: Scinteia and the Establishment of Communism in Romania - Dorina Orzac: Romanian Mass Media in 1945-1950 - Jane Leftwich Curry: The Conundrums of Censorship: Poland in the 1940s and 1950s - Jürgen Wilke: Press Instructions as a Device of Media Control in the German Democratic Republic - Sirje Olesk: Writers' Collaboration with the Soviet Authorities, and the Dominant Literary Journal in the Estonian SSR in the 1940s and 1950s - Andrej Skolkay: When Innocent Words were Sharp Swords: The Intellectual and Literary Press in the Early Years of Communism in Slovakia - Pavlína Binková: Black and White? - The Beginnings of Czechoslovak Television News Broadcasting - Indrek Treufeldt: Creating a New Communication Environment: The Birth of Television News in Soviet Estonia.

Olaf Mertelsmann is Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Tartu (Estonia). He holds a doctorate from the University of Hamburg and has taught in Hamburg, Novosibirsk, and Tartu. He has published various monographs, edited volumes and articles.