Militant Liberty: A Comparative Study of the Scope and Limits of the Aggressive Ideological Strategy during the Early Phase of the Cold War
ECNU-WWICS Scholar Zhang Yang will give a presentation entitled "Militant Liberty: A Comparative Study of the Scope and Limits of the Aggressive Ideological Strategy during the Early Phase of the American Cold War."
Overview
Using new archival sources ECNU-WWICS Scholar Zhang Yang sheds new light on ideology as a vital policy weapon in the Cold War in her presentation entitled Militant Liberty: A Comparative Study of the Scope and Limits of the Aggressive Ideological Strategy during the Early Phase of the American Cold War.
Widely known are those techniques used by the Socialist bloc, particularly the Soviet Union, to use, train and indoctrinate their own people and then export that communist ideology to the outside world. Yet there is very little scholarship on the strategy adopted by the Western bloc, particularly the United States, to oppose that effort and indeed to prevail with its own ideological warfare. Zhang will examine the Doctrinal Program, the Militant Liberty Program and the Freedom Commission proposal and explores why, in the early stage of the Cold War, there was such widespread public tolerance of an aggressive anti-communist strategy in the US.
Joining Zhang on the panel is John Prados, senior research fellow at the National Security Archive.
James F. Person, Wilson Center senior program associate will chair the event.
Speaker
Yang Zhang
Professor, Northeast Normal University, China.
Hosted By
Cold War International History Project
The Cold War International History Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War. Through an award winning Digital Archive, the Project allows scholars, journalists, students, and the interested public to reassess the Cold War and its many contemporary legacies. It is part of the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. Read more
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