Lessons from the Propaganda Underground: How Cold War Optics Can Help Us Read Our World
1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United StatesFeaturing Margaret Peacock, University of Alabama. The twentieth century witnessed the advent of modern propaganda. Many associate propaganda with the Nazi regime, with its vitriolic efforts to conjure militant hyper-nationalism and anti-Semitism. But far more pervasive and long lasting was the propaganda that characterized the Cold War that followed. Propagandists from the Soviet Union and the United States mobilized new…