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Index
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Britain and the Cold War
Apocalypticism
Glimpsing and Encountering the Eastern European Other
Structure of the Book
1. Between West and East: Fellow-Travellers and British Culture in the Early Cold War
The ‘Red Dean’ and Early Cold War Culture
The World Peace Congress
Murder in Moscow and Cold War Allies and Enemies
Conclusion
2. ‘No Defence Against the H-bomb’: British Society and H-bomb Consciousness in 1954
The Emergence of the H-bomb in British Media
The Coventry Civil Defence Scandal
The Coventry Civil Defence Exercise
Conclusion
3. ‘The Iron Curtain is Melting Away’: Encounters with ‘The Thaw’
A Camera in Russia
Sporting Engagements
Khrushchev in Britain
The Ponomareva Affair
Conclusion
4. ‘When are the British Coming to Help Us?’: British Responses to the Soviet Invasion of Budapest, 1956
Political Capital, Funding and Clientelism
The Repression
Re-Stalinisation
Conclusion
5. ‘Russia Wins Space Race’: The British Press and the Launch of Sputnik, October 1957
The Soviet Sputnik
Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact
The First Earthling in Orbit
The Dog’s Death
Conclusion
6. The Thriller and the Cold War
The Cold War as a Game
Cold War Insecurity
An Agent Without Agency
Conclusion
7. Nuclear Anxieties and Popular Culture
Nuclear Anxieties and Protest Movements
Fiction and Mutually Assured Destruction
Criticising the Cold War
Conclusion
8. ‘The Greatest Story of Our Lifetime’: The Successes and the Limitations of Soviet Ideology
Modernity and Declinist Narratives
Yuri Gagarin in Britain
The Building of the Berlin Wall
Damn You England
Conclusion
9. Viewing the Soviet Union at the End of Khrushchev’s Rule
The ‘Matrix of Us and Them’ in The Ashes of Loda
After the Coup
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
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