Introduction / Olaf Mertelsmann, 9
Fascist Interest in Soviet Cinema / Chloé Stephenson, 13
A Case Study in Censorship: Stalin's Early Film Image / Judith Devlin, 27
Exploring NS-Propaganda as Social Practice / Inge Marszolek, 49
Trophy Films and Western Radio Broadcasting as a Window to the World in Post-war Estonia / Olaf Mertelsmann, 61
Writing for a Political Minority, Gaining the Majority of Readers: the 'Red Boulevard' in Austria 1945-1959 / Roland Graf, 75
The Media and the Onset of the Cold War in Bulgaria 1944-1947 / Marietta Stankova, 87
"The Tip of the Lance": Scinteia and the Establishment of Communism in Romania / Peter Gross, 113
Romanian Mass Media in 1945-1950 / Dorina Orzac, 127
The Conundrums of Censorship: Poland in the 1940s and 1950s / Jane Leftwich Curry, 139
Press Instructions as a Device of Media Control in the German Democratic Republic / Jürgen Wilke, 155
Writers' Collaboration with the Soviet Authorities, and the Dominant Literary Journal in the Estonian SSR in the 1940s and 1950s / Sirje Olesk, 171
When Innocent Words were Sharp Swords: The Intellectual and Literary Press in the Early Years of Communism in Slovakia / Andrej Skolkay, 183
Black and White? The Beginnings of Czechoslovak Television News Broadcasting / Pavlina Binková, 197
Creating a New Communication Environment: The Birth of Television News in Soviet Estonia / Indrek Treufeldt, 215