This collection of seventeen essays focusing on the relationship between media in the Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland) and the Cold War is partly the result of a Nordic conference on media and communication research in Oslo in 2013. With few exceptions, the contributors to the book are media and communication researchers rather than historians. Accordingly, readers looking for an introduction to the general history of the Cold War in the Nordic countries should look elsewhere. However, if you are looking for detailed case studies based on original research of Nordic media representations and (to some extent) cultural reflections of the Cold War, this is a book to consult, even if the selection of researchers and topics betrays a clear Norwegian bias (only three of the essays relate to Finland, three exclusively to Sweden, and one to Denmark).
The essays are structured reasonably in three main chronological...