Governing Soviet Journalism - The Press and the Socialist Person After Stalin

Informationen zum Autor Thomas C. Wolfe is Assistant Professor of History and Anthropology and in the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext The Soviet project of creating a new culture and society entailed a plan for the modeling of "new" persons who embodied and fulfilled the promise of socialism, and this vision was expressed in the institutions of government. Using archival sources, essays, and interviews with journalists, Thomas C. Wolfe provides an account of the final four decades of Soviet history viewed through the lens of journalism and media. Whereas most studies of the Soviet press approach its history in terms of propaganda or ideology, Wolfe's focus is on the effort to imagine a different kind of person and polity. Foucault's concept of governmentality illuminates the relationship between the idea of the socialist person and everyday journalistic representation, from the Khrushchev period to the 1990s and the appearance of the tabloid press. This thought-provoking study provides insights into the institutions of the Soviet press and the lives of journalists who experienced important transformations of their work. Zusammenfassung Examines the pivotal role of the media in creating Soviet society and personhood. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Sources Prologue Introduction 1. Journalism and the Person in the Soviet Sixties 2. Agranovskii's Essays 3. Journalism against Socialism, Socialism against Journalism 4. Perestroika and the End of Government by Journalism 5. Teaching Tabloids Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Thomas C Wolfe, Thomas C. Wolfe, Wolfe Thomas C
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2005
• EAN: 9780253345899
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34589-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Indiana University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Russland, Europäische Geschichte, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Politische Ideologien, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, History - General History, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union