Quaker travels, fellow traveler?: Wroe Alderson's visit to Russia during the cold war

Journal of Macromarketing

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 303-324

  Tadajewski, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cold war; FBI; Macromarketing; Politics; Wroe Alderson

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349125610     PISSN: 02761467     EISSN: 15526534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0276146709334305     Document Type: Article

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