Under the Radar: Tracking Western Radio Listeners in the Soviet Union
Under the Radar: Tracking Western Radio Listeners in the Soviet Union Western democracy is currently under attack by a resurgent Russia, weaponizing new technologies and social media. During the Cold…
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Under the Radar: Tracking Western Radio Listeners in the Soviet Union
Western democracy is currently under attack by a resurgent Russia, weaponizing new technologies and social media. During the Cold War, the West fought off similar Soviet propaganda assaults with shortwave radio broadcasts. How to respond?
About one-third of Soviet urban adults listened to Western radio. Founded in 1949, the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcast uncensored information to the Soviet republics in their own languages. The broadcasts played a key role in ending the Cold War and eroding the communist empire.R.
Eugene Parta was for many years the director of Soviet Area Audience Research at RFE/RL, charged among others with gathering listener feedback. In this book he relates a remarkable Cold War operation to assess the impact of Western radio broadcasts on Soviet listeners by using a novel survey research approach. Given the impossibility of