The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics: A Brief History with Documents

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Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Illustrations
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Part One Introduction: The Kitchen Debate in Historical Context
The Cold War, Containment, and “Peaceful Competition”
The Politics of Abundance
The Culture of Containment
The Politics of Food and Farms
Part Two The Documents
1 The Kitchen Debate
Selling the American Way
1 Llewellyn E. Thompson U.S. Ambassador’s Telegram on Plans for the American National Exhibition November 17, 1958
2 Office of the American National Exhibition in Moscow Kitchens of Today and Tomorrow Slated for Moscow Exhibition February 9, 1959
3 Office of the American National Exhibition in Moscow Cooking Display in Moscow to Feature American Dishes May 13, 1959
4 Jerry Marlatt Letter to President Dwight Eisenhower July 10, 1959
Nixon Goes to Moscow
5 The Two Worlds: A Day-Long Debate July 25, 1959
6 YE. Litoshko A Talk to the Point July 25, 1959
7 V. Osipov First Day, First Impressions July 26, 1959
8 VL. Zhukov What the Facts Say July 28, 1959
9 Home Economist Demonstrates Convenience Foods July 1959
10 Robert Lerner The Miracle Kitchen March 1959
11 Everything for Soviet Man August 5, 1959
Responses to Nixon’s Visit
12 Edward L. Freers U.S. Diplomat’s Telegram on the American National Exhibition September 8, 1959
13 Favorable Comments on Exhibition September 1959
14 Unfavorable Comments on Exhibition September 1959
15 Ye. Litoshko On Nixon’s Visit to the Urals July 31, 1959
16 Bill Mauldin Boy, Did He Tell Them Off! July 26, 1959
17 Nikita Khrushchev Speech in Dnepropetrovsk July 28, 1959
2 Consumers and Consensus
Capitalist Consumer Citizens
18 Alex Henderson Why We Eat Better November 1951
19 John A. Logan Speech on Modern Food Distribution October 20, 1958
20 John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society 1958
21 Herblock Split-Level Living March 9, 1960
Socialist Consumer Citizens
22 Edmund Nash Report on Purchasing Power of Soviet Workers 1953
23 Nikita Khrushchev Speech on the 1959 Soviet Seven-Year Economic Plan January 1959
24 V. Ye. Semichastny Speech on Communist Youth and Consumerism January 1959
25 A Soviet Woman Questions Consumerism 1962
3 An Easier Life for Our Housewives
A Servantless Kitchen?
26 Lita Price and Harriet Bonnet How to Manage without Maid 1942
27 Goodbye Mammy, Hello Mom March 1947
28 Jean Harris You Have 1001 Servants in Your Kitchen March 1951
29 Youngstown Kitchens Whether You Build, Buy or Modernize 1953
30 Poppy Cannon The Can-Opener Cookbook 1952
31 Revolution in the Kitchen February 15, 1957
32 Peg Bracken The I Hate to Cook Book 1960
Socialist Kitchens
33 Maria Ovsyannikova The Woman in Soviet Life March 1959
34 R. Podol’nyi Technology on the March, 1959
35 Marietta Shaginian Reflections on the American Exhibition August 23, 1959
36 I. Luchkova and A. Sikachev Is There a Science of the Home? October 1964
4 Down on the Farm
Abundance and Rivalry
37 Edmund K. Faltermayer Farmer Khrushchev, August 10, 1959
38 Nikita Khrushchev Speech in Des Moines, Iowa September 22, 1959
The Problems of Plenty
39 John Kenneth Galbraith Speech on the Farm Problem and the Policy Choices February 1958
40 Erwin D. Canham The Farmer in the Space Age October 7, 1959
Agricultural Diplomacy
41 Orville Freeman Memo to the President re Tour of the Soviet Union July 30, 1963
42 U.S. Central Intelligence Agency The Significance of Four Million Tons of U.S. Wheat for Food Consumption in the USSR October 15, 1963
43 U.S. Information Agency Khrushchev in Wheat Field August 1964
A Chronology of the Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics (1941-1964)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Cold War Politics and Culture
Consumers and Consumption
Food and Agriculture
Gender and Family
Acknowledgments (continued from p. iv)
Index
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