Fighting the Cold War in Post-Blockade, Pre-Wall Berlin

As fought in 1950s Berlin, the cold war was a many-headed monster. Assessing the licit and the illicit, the book stresses the messy and entwined nature of this war of a thousand cuts / miniscule salami slices.

Mark Fenemore is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having completed a PhD on East German youth subcultures at University College London, supervised by Professor Mary Fulbrook, he has worked on a series of projects relating to gender, sexuality, mass culture, espionage and policing, with a particular focus on divided, cold-war Berlin.

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE: A MESSY AND ENTANGLED BORDER COMPLEX 1) Brinkmanship and Intransigence at the Frontier 2) Enclaves and Exclaves 3) S-Bahn Incidents PART TWO: SHADOW-BOXING FEINTS AND REAL INCURSIONS 4) The Paramilitary Response to Threatened Invasions 5) Policing Demonstrations and Protests near the Border PART THREE: CONTAGIOUS CAPITALISM AND IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION 6) Illicit Smuggling 7) Wanderers Between Two Worlds PART FOUR: COVERT WARFARE IN COLD-WAR BERLIN 8) The Murky World of Espionage 9) The Art of Kidnapping 10) Impact of the Berlin Wall Conclusion Index