Defending Democracy in Cold War Finland

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Defending Democracy in Cold War Finland is written by Marek Fields and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004416420 (ISBN 10) and 9789004416420 (ISBN 13).

In Defending Democracy in Cold War Finland, Marek Fields offers a thorough account on the various informational and cultural strategies Britain and the United States used during the early Cold War decades in order to increase their influence and contain communism in Finland. The book shows that by using propaganda and cultural diplomacy in an exceptionally challenging environment, the two Western powers were able to achieve their main objectives in the region, i.e. to defend democracy and strengthen Finland’s attachment to the West, surprisingly well. Making use of a large variety of British, American and Finnish archives, Fields proves that the Western countries’ interest in Finland during the Cold War was stronger than it has previously been realised.