News from Moscow : soviet journalism and the limits of postwar reform
News from Moscow is a social and cultural history of Soviet journalism after World War II. Focusing on the youth newspaper Komsomol'skaia Pravda, the study draws on transcripts of behind-the-scenes editorial meetings to chart the changing professional ethos of the Soviet journalist.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
2022
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| Schlagworte: | Journalism Journalists Soviet Union Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (266 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | News from Moscow is a social and cultural history of Soviet journalism after World War II. Focusing on the youth newspaper Komsomol'skaia Pravda, the study draws on transcripts of behind-the-scenes editorial meetings to chart the changing professional ethos of the Soviet journalist. Cover -- News from Moscow: Soviet Journalism and the Limits of Postwar Reform -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Note on Abbreviations and References -- References to Komsomol'skaia pravda Editorial Meetings and Articles -- Introduction: Reformers and Propagandists: The Paradoxes of Post-war Soviet Journalism -- Overcoming the Past -- Journalism and Thaw Media -- Book Structure -- SECTION 1: 1945-1957: Ritual Socialism -- 1: Rituals, Routines and Ideology in the Late Stalinist Press -- Editorial Routines -- Public Rituals: Supreme Soviet Elections -- Campaign Messages -- The View from Backstage -- An Individual Approach -- Epilogue: The Stalinist Roots of Thaw Journalism -- 2: Satire, Sensations, and Slander: Criticism and Self-Criticism from Stalin to the Secret Speech -- Criticism and Self-Criticismin the Late Stalin Period -- The Good and the Better -- Self-Criticismafter the Twentieth Party Congress -- Criticism and the Courts -- Student Unrest and the Hungary Effect -- Satire and Sensationalism -- How Criticism was Extinguished -- Epilogue: Criticism and Self-Criticismafter 1956 -- SECTION 2: 1956-1964: Romantic Socialism -- 3: Far from Moscow: Heroic Autobiographies and the Paradoxes of Thaw Modernity -- The Virgin Lands Campaign -- The Revolutionary Baton -- Edited Subjects -- Is It Easy to Be Modern? -- Conclusion: Romantics 'In' and 'Out' of the Soviet System -- 4: From Word to Deed: The Communard Method and Thaw Citizenship -- Formalism and the Problem of Boredom -- Youth and Labour Education -- The Frunze Commune -- The Importance of Discussion -- Raising the Scarlet Sail -- The Communards and the End of the Thaw -- SECTION 3: 1960-1970: Reforming Socialism -- 5: The Institute of Public Opinion and the Birth of Soviet Polling -- How Sociology Became Soviet (Again) -- Sociology as Plebiscite. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (266 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780192672186 0192672185 9780192857699 019285769X |