1st Edition

Fighting the Cold War in Post-Blockade, Pre-Wall Berlin Behind Enemy Lines

By Mark Fenemore Copyright 2020
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

As fought in 1950s Berlin, the cold war was a many-headed monster. Winning stomachs with enticing consumption was as important as winning hearts and minds with persuasive propaganda. Demonstrators not only fought the police in the streets; they were swayed one way or another by cultural competition. Western espionage agencies waged brazen but surreptitious covert warfare, while the Stasi fought... Read more

List of Tables and Figures



Acknowledgments



Abbreviations





Introduction





PART ONE: A MESSY AND ENTANGLED BORDER COMPLEX



1) Brinkmanship and Intransigence at the Frontier



2) Enclaves and Exclaves



3) S-Bahn Incidents





PART TWO: SHADOW-BOXING FEINTS AND REAL INCURSIONS



4) The Paramilitary Response to Threatened Invasions



5) Policing Demonstrations and Protests near the Border





PART THREE: CONTAGIOUS CAPITALISM AND IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION



6) Illicit Smuggling



7) Wanderers Between Two Worlds





PART FOUR: COVERT WARFARE IN COLD-WAR BERLIN



8) The Murky World of Espionage



9) The Art of Kidnapping



10) Impact of the Berlin Wall





Conclusion



Index



Biography

Mark Fenemore is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having completed a PhD on East German youth subcultures at University College London, supervised by Professor Mary Fulbrook, he has worked on a series of projects relating to gender, sexuality, mass culture, espionage and policing, with a particular focus on divided, cold-war Berlin.