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The Post-Soviet Russian Media
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ABSTRACT
This book explores developments in the Russian mass media since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Complementing and building upon its companion volume, Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control, it traces the tensions resulting from the effective return to state-control under Putin of a mass media privatised and accorded its first, limited, taste of independence in the Yeltsin period. It surveys the key developments in Russian media since 1991, including the printed press, television and new media, and investigates the contradictions of the post-Soviet media market that have affected the development of the media sector in recent years. It analyses the impact of the Putin presidency, including the ways in which the media have constructed Putin’s image in order to consolidate his power and their role in securing his election victories in 2000 and 2004. It goes on to consider the status and function of journalism in post-Soviet Russia, discussing the conflict between market needs and those of censorship, the gulf that has arisen separating journalists from their audiences. The relationship between television and politics is examined, and also the role of television as entertainment, as well as its role in nation building and the projection of a national identity. Finally, it appraises the increasingly important role of new media and the internet. Overall, this book is a detailed investigation of the development of mass media in Russia since the end of Communism and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part 1 Media, politics and state
chapter 3|15 pages
Shifting media and the failure of political communication in Russia
chapter 4|16 pages
The end of independent television? Elite conflict and the reconstruction of the Russian television landscape
part |2 pages
Part 2 The language of the media
chapter 6|18 pages
What’s in a foreign word? Negotiating linguistic culture on Russian radio programmes about language
part |2 pages
Part 3 The media and memory
chapter 7|12 pages
The conundrum of memory: Young people and their recollection of Soviet television
chapter 8|20 pages
Commemorating the past/performing the present: Television coverage of the Second World War victory celebrations and the (de)construction of Russian nationhood
part |2 pages
Part 4 Culture, state and empire in television serials
part |2 pages
Part 5 New media, censorship and identity