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This intriguing book examines popular religion, traditional medicine, witchcraft, apparitions, demonology, and magic in nineteenth-century rural France. Devlin demonstrates that many of the impulses and mental processes now considered superstitious constituted a wholly reasonable response to the pressures of a harsh and impoverished life. Far from the product of a primitive mentality, many of these beliefs have survived in modern culture and can even illuminate the nature of modern mass politics.--

Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- SECTION I: Eastern Approaches: Myths and their Makers -- 1: 'Out of your sacrificial death grows our socialist deed': Ernst Thälmann, the Antifascism Myth and Buchenwald Concentration Camp in East German Political Propaganda, 1945-58 -- 2: The Leader Cult in Communist Hungary, 1945-56: Propaganda, Institutional Background and Mass Media -- 3: Soviet Power and its Images: Celebrating Stalin's Seventieth Birthday -- 4: Ideological Pressure and Censorship: Czech Literature, 1948-57 -- 5: The Department of Agitation and Propaganda in Bulgaria, 1944-56 -- 6: Remembering the 'Martyrs of Antifascism' in Republican Italy: Piero Gobetti and the Italian Communist Party -- SECTION II: Getting the Message Across -- 7: Radio Luxembourg and Cold War Changes in European Attitudes Towards International Broadcasting -- 8: Greek and Yugoslav Public Radio in the 1940s and 1950s -- 9: Print, Power, and Persuasion: Political Poster Art in the Two German States during the First Decade of the Cold War -- 10: West European Identity in Marshall Plan Propaganda Films -- 11: New Cities for New People: Urban Planning and Mass Media Propaganda in Stalinist Poland and the GDR -- 12: 'Stalin's Skyscrapers' and the Propaganda of the New World Order after World War II -- SECTION III: The Politics of Entertainment -- 13: The Media Audience of a Soviet Republic in the Early Cold War: The Estonian SSR -- 14: Jazz in Austria in the Allied Powers' Cultural Propaganda during the Cold War, 1945-55 -- 15: Creating the 'New Man': Propaganda and its Alternatives in Hungarian Literature from Romania, 1948-65 -- 16: Jazz, Rock and Roll and Halbstarke: American Popular Culture in West Germany between Weimar Conservatism and Cold War Liberalism