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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.
List of contents
- Introduction: Reformers and Propagandists: The Paradoxes of Postwar Soviet Journalism
- Part I: 1945-1957: Ritual Socialism
- 1: Rituals, Routines, and Ideology in the Late Stalinist Press
- 2: Satire, Sensations, and Slander: Criticism and Self-Criticism from Stalin to the Secret Speech
- Part II: 1956-1964: Romantic Socialism
- 3: Far From Moscow: Heroic Autobiographies and the Paradoxes of Thaw Modernity
- 4: From Word to Deed: The Communard Method and Thaw Citizenship
- Part III: 1960-1970: Reforming Socialism
- 5: The Institute of Public Opinion and the Birth of Soviet Polling
- 6: From Technocracy to Stagnation: When Did the Thaw Freeze Over?
- Epilogue: Thaw Journalism after the Thaw
About the author
Simon Huxtable is Lecturer in Modern European History at Birkbeck, University of London. His work focuses on the history of the Soviet Union, with a particular focus on mass media. He is the co-author, with Sabina Mihelj, of From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television (2018) and has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on the history of the press and television in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Summary
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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This meticulously researched and well-written book highlights the central role that journalism played in most political, social, and cultural processes in the postwar Soviet Union...A pleasure to read, this book fills a large lacuna in our understanding of the Soviet information universe.
