Within Cold War studies, emigrants from the Soviet bloc remain an unwritten chapter. This journal has published merely two articles on the topic, one of which is revealing in its title, “Exploiting the Exiles.” Emigrants have been treated as objects in the hands of mightier players regardless of the emigrants' own agenda. Irrefutably, the exiles are always dependent on the authorities in their new country of residence, but their endurance in the given limits provides an interesting angle to international politics.
In the cultural Cold War, Radio Free Europe (RFE) has gained a mythical reputation, yet little scholarly literature exists on the broadcasts or the organization arranging them. The organization behind the radio station was the Free Europe Committee (FEC). Even the name causes confusion, because it was founded as the Committee for Free Europe in May 1949, but a few weeks later the prefix “National” was added. The name...