Between the Rejected Past and an Uncertain Future: Russian Media Studies at a Crossroads

Almost two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is still a struggle to understand the processes in post-Soviet media1 and their trajectory. Fluidity, changeability, vagueness, and inconclusiveness of many developments in those countries challenge research attempts to analyze them in a clear and orderly way. Theoretical and empirical contributions are scattered across journals and research fi elds.