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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Russia and the West -- 2 The Moscow Youth Festival -- 3 The Cultural Agreement -- 4 Scholarly Exchanges -- 5 Science and Technology -- 6 Humanities and Social Sciences -- 7 Moscow Think Tanks -- 8 Forums Across Oceans -- 9 Other NGO Exchanges -- 10 Performing Arts -- 11 Moved by the Movies -- 12 Exhibitions-Seeing is Believing -- 13 Hot Books in the Cold War -- 14 The Pen Is Mightier . . . -- 15 Journalists and Diplomats -- 16 Fathers and Sons -- 17 The Search for a Normal Society -- 18 "Western Voices" -- 19 To Helsinki and Beyond -- 20 Mikhail Gorbachev, International Traveler -- 21 And Those Who Could Not Travel -- 22 The Polish Connection -- 23 The Beatles Did It -- 24 Obmen or Obman? -- 25 The Future -- Afterword -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

There is much discussion these days about public diplomacy-communicating directly with the people of other countries rather than through their diplomats-but little information about what it actually entails. This book does exactly that by detailing the doings of a US Foreign Service cultural officer in five hot spots of the Cold War - Germany, Laos, Poland, Austria, and the Soviet Union - as well as service in Washington DC with the State Department, the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress, and the National Endowment for Democracy. Part history, part memoir, it takes readers into the trenches of the Cold War and demonstrates what public diplomacy can do. It also provides examples of what could be done today in countries where anti-Americanism runs high

Various phases of cooperation, their objectives and accomplishments.