Introduction: What was the Cold War? -- Part I. The repercussions -- Naming the unnamable -- Local translation -- Part II. The social -- Cold War fantasy -- Politics of impression -- The truth-making campaign -- Between mobilization and participation -- Part III. The simultaneity -- Social warfare -- "Expose enemies within our gates!" -- People's war at home -- Decolonization as recolonization -- Epilogue: The Cold War as social politics.