Transnational Anti-Communism and the Cold War

How was anti-communism organised in the West? This book covers the agents, aims, and arguments of various transnational anti-communist activists during the Cold War. Existing narratives often place the United States and especially the CIA at the centre of anti-communist activity. The book instead opens up new fields of research transnationally.

The volume brings together the work of a new generation of scholars of the Cold War, some of whose work is appearing in English translation for the first time. This edited volume sets the agenda for future research on transnationalism and the Cold War, about which much remains to be discovered. (Benjamin Tromly, European History Quarterly, Vol. 46 (4), 2016)

Autorentext
Pierre Abramovici, investigative journalist and TV reporter, Monaco Niels Bjerre-Poulsen, University of Southern Denmark Bent Boel, Aalborg University, Denmark Olivier Dard, University of Paris: Sorbonne IV, France Matthieu Gillabert, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Johannes Großmann, University of Tübingen, Germany Adrian Hänni, University of Zurich, Switzerland Dino Knudsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Bernard Ludwig, Universités Paris 1 and Paris 4, CNRS, France Jeffrey H. Michaels, King's College London, UK Martin Nekola, freelance editor, Czech Republic Markku Ruotsila, University of Helsinki, Finland Jean Solchany, Lyon Institute of Political Studies, France Tity de Vries, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Hugh Wilford, California State University, USA

Inhalt
Introduction (Luc van Dongen, Stéphanie Roulin, Giles Scott-Smith) PART I: THE WURLITZER REVISITED 1. The American Society of African Culture: The CIA and Transnational Networks among African Diaspora Intellectuals; Hugh Wilford 2. The American Federation of Labor and the Nordic Non-Communist Left; Dino Knudsen 3. 'Brother Tronchet': A Swiss Trade Union Leader within the American Sphere of Influence; Luc van Dongen 4. 'Not an Ugly American': Sal Tas, a Dutch Reporter as Agent of the West in Africa; Tity de Vries PART II: TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS 5. Paix et Liberté: The Formative Transnational Anti-Communist Network; Bernard Ludwig 6. Gathering the Exiles: The Assembly of Captive European Nations; Martin Nekola 7. The Formation and Mutations of the World Anti-Communist League; Pierre Abramovici 8. The Necessity of Going Transnational: The Role of Interdoc; Giles Scott-Smith 9. Brian Crozier and the Institute for the Study of Conflict; Jeff Michaels 10. Global Crusade against Communism: The Cercle during the 'Second Cold War'; Adrian Hänni PART III: INTELLECTUAL NETWORKS AND ANTI-TOTALITARIANISM 11. The Sovietology of Józef M. Boche?ski: Transnational Activism from Switzerland, 1955-1965; Matthieu Gillabert 12. Suzanne Labin: An Atlanticist Anti-Communist Professional; Olivier Dard 13. The Mont Pelerin Society and the Rise of the Postwar Neoliberal Counter-Establishment; Niels Bjerre-Poulsen 14. Better Dead than Red: Wilhelm Röpke, a Neoliberal Anti-Communist; Jean Solchany PART IV: CHRISTIAN NETWORKS 15. Transnational Anti-Communist Fundamentalism: The International Council of Christian Churches; Markku Ruotsila 16. A Christian Kominform? The Comité International de Défense de la Civilisation Chrétienne; Johannes Grossmann 17. Bible Smuggling and Human Rights in the Soviet Bloc During the Cold War; Bent Boel