Table of Contents
Preface ix
1 Individual or Collective - Two National Psyches 1
2 Two Nations; Two Missions 7
3 Kissing Stalin's Bum 13
4 Yalta and the Psychology of Betrayal 26
5 Potsdam and Paranoia 44
6 Stalin the Neurotic 56
7 The Long Telegrams 66
8 Threats and Mind Readers 86
9 War by Inadvertence 102
10 Trouble among Socialist Friends 118
11 Stalin's Ghost - Memory, Fear and the Monster from the Grave 135
12 A Psychological Vacuum 147
13 The Secret Speech and the Psychology of the Crowd 161
14 Psychological Warfare 171
15 McCarthyism and Witch-Hunts 186
16 Brainwashing 201
17 Sputnik and the Psychology of Fear 216
18 The Kitchen: Competing Utopias 232
19 Bricks in the Wall 248
20 The Space Race 266
21 Brinkmanship 288
22 Duck and Cover 307
23 Disinformation 332
24 Double Agents, Double Dealing, Doublethink 351
25 Inventing the Enemy in Books and Film 369
26 Art, Posters and Jokes 387
27 Music 403
28 Religion 422
29 Falling Dominoes 436
30 They Took Away Your Mind - Control through Silence 450
31 The Psychology of the Front Line 466
32 The Madman and Detente 482
33 Reagan's Epiphany 495
34 The Wall Torn Down 515
35 The Evil Empire is No More 526
36 The Misuses of Memory 540
Notes and Selected Bibliography 555
Illustration Credits 556
Index 558