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Between truth and time : a history of Soviet Central Television
The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and programming in the decades before perestroika In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass culture in the Brezhnev era was dull and formulaic. Tracing the emergence of play, conflict, and competition on Soviet news programs, serial films, and variety and game shows, Evans shows that Soviet Central Television's most popular shows were experimental and creative, laying the groundwork for Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms and the post-Soviet media system.
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Between truth and time : a history of Soviet Central Television
In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass culture in the Brezhnev era was dull and formulaic. Tracing the emergence of play, conflict, and competition on Soviet news programs, serial films, and variety and game shows, Evans shows that Soviet Central Television's most popular shows were experimental and creative, laying the groundwork for Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms and the post-Soviet media system. -- Provided by publisher.
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Cold War Radio
Cold War Radio is a fascinating look at how the United
States waged the Cold War through the international broadcasting of
Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
(RFE/RL). Mark G. Pomar served in senior positions at VOA and
RFE/RL from 1982 to 1993, during which time the Reagan and Bush
administrations made VOA and RFE/RL an important part of their
foreign policy. VOA is America's \"national voice,\" broadcasting in
more than forty languages, and is charged with explaining U.S.
government policies and telling America's story with the aim of
gaining the respect and goodwill of its target audience. During the
Cold War, the VOA Russian Service broadcast twenty-four hours a
day, seven days a week. RFE/RL is a private corporation, funded
until 1971 by the CIA and afterward through open congressional
appropriations. It broadcast in more than twenty languages of
Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia and functioned as a \"home
service\" located abroad. Its Russian Service broadcast news,
feature programming, and op-eds that would have been part of daily
political discourse if Russia had free media. Pomar takes readers
inside the two radio stations to show how the broadcasts were
conceived and developed and the impact they had on international
broadcasting, U.S.-Soviet relations, Russian political and cultural
history, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Pomar provides
nuanced analysis of the broadcasts and sheds light on the
multifaceted role the radios played during the Cold War, ranging
from instruments of U.S. Cold War policy to repositories of
independent Russian culture, literature, philosophy, religion, and
the arts. Cold War Radio breaks new ground as Pomar
integrates his analysis of Cold War radio programming with the
long-term aims of U.S. foreign policy, illuminating the role of
radio in the peaceful end of the Cold War.
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Curtain of lies : the battle over truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe
\"While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within the confines of the Soviet worldview, their peoples confronted the narratives of both East and West. From the Soviet Union and its satellites, they heard of a West dominated by imperialist warmongers and of the glorious future only Communism could bring. A competing discourse emanated from the West, claiming that Eastern Europe was a totalitarian land of captive slaves, powerless in the face of Soviet aggression. In Curtain of Lies, Melissa Feinberg conducts a timely examination into the nature of truth, using the political culture of Eastern Europe during the Cold War as her foundation. Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1956, she looks at how the 'truth' of Eastern Europe was delineated by actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Feinberg offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as a shared political environment, exploring the ways in which ordinary East Europeans interacted with these competing understandings of their homeland. She approaches this by looking at the relationship between the American-sponsored radio stations broadcast across the Iron Curtain and the East European âemigrâes they interviewed as sources on life under Communism. Feinberg's careful analysis reveals that these parties developed mutually reinforced assumptions about the meaning of Communism, helping to create the evidentiary foundation for totalitarian interpretations of Communist rule in Eastern Europe. In bridging the geopolitical and the individual, Curtain of Lies provides a perspective that is both innovative in its methodology and indispensable to its field\"--Provided by publisher.
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Russian TV series in the era of transition : genres, technologies, identities
This book examines major Russian TV series focusing on three major issues: Russian television's transition to digital post-broadcast visual economy, Russian television's integration into global television markets and their genre systems, and major shifts in representation of gender and sexuality on television.
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Broadcasting Bolshevik: The Radio Voice of Soviet Culture, 1920s—1950s
Propaganda was always a key preoccupation of the Soviet regime and it was not limited to the printed word. Public speaking — whether in meetings and lectures or on the radio — had a prominent place in the Soviet version of modernity. From the early 1920s onwards, propagandists, journalists and performers debated how best to use the spoken word: what was the balance to be struck between oratory and information, edifcation and theatricality, authority and popular participation? Radio professionals struggled with these issues more than anyone: they had to get broadcasts right, yet studios worked under great pressure and faced serious technological constraints. By 1937 experimental and interactive forms of broadcasting were effectively banned. They made a slow comeback in the postwar era, thanks in no small part to technological improvements such as the introduction of mobile recording equipment. The story of how Russia learned to speak on air is an important and hitherto overlooked aspect of Soviet 'cultural construction'.
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Discovering the Hidden Listener
This overview of the impact of Western radio and Radio Liberty--from the listeners' perspective--addresses questions of audience size and listening trends over time, listeners' demographic traits and attitudes, and more.
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Free Time Is Not Meant to Be Wasted: Educational, Political, and Taboo Leisure Activities among the Soviet Buryats of Eastern Siberia
This article details how an increasingly educated and urban Buryat population became both the creators and consumers of new leisure activities in the late Soviet period. It argues that central and local authorities believed that leisure activities could help them to impress upon the Buryats that there were great benefits to living in the Soviet Union and to adopting a more pan-Soviet identity within the brotherhood of nations. They also presumed that leisure activities could aid in the building of a culture that was Buryat, Soviet, and more modern. This article examines why authorities assigned great importance to leisure and how they used and created cultural-educational institutions and mass media content to implement, direct, and promote cultural development. It analyzes various institutions such as museums, clubs, and theaters, as well as the production and consumption of local newspapers and television and radio programming that promoted educational leisure activities. In addition, it explores authorities’ concerns about the rise, especially among youth, of more taboo leisure activities that deviated from the official ones that they encouraged.
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