TY - BOOK ID - 31272876 TI - Russian influence campaigns against the West : from the Cold War to Putin PY - 2016 SN - 9781535597098 PB - North Charleston, S.C. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform DB - UniCat KW - PROPAGANDA, RUSSIAN KW - DISINFORMATION--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) KW - DISINFORMATION--USSR KW - USSR--FOREIGN RELATIONS KW - RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS KW - Politics KW - anno 2000-2009 KW - anno 1980-1989 KW - anno 1960-1969 KW - anno 1950-1959 KW - anno 2010-2019 KW - anno 1970-1979 KW - anno 1990-1999 KW - Russia KW - Polemology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31272876 AB - Russia, under both the Soviets and Vladimir Putin, is in a struggle with Western civilization, and has conducted influence campaigns to weaken and undermine the West from within. This study of influence campaigns waged against the West by the Soviet Union and now by Russia under President Vladimir Putin is intended to present a detailed overview and analysis of the various influence campaigns. Methods and means employed by the Soviet Union included active measures, disinformation, propaganda, controlled international front groups, agents of influence, forgeries, and reflexive control. Campaign themes are examined, and two key campaigns against NATO deployment of the neutron bomb and intermediate-range nuclear force are analyzed as case studies of a successful and failed campaign. The influence campaigns waged by President Putin against the West combine time tested methods with new information age techniques not available during the Soviet era including internet trolls, social media, information warfare, and cyber operations. Both similarities and differences exist in the execution and objectives of influence campaigns conducted by the Soviet Union and Putin’s Russia. ER -