Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War

^ Read ! Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War by Kristin Roth-Ey Ñ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War Yet Soviet success also brought complex and unintended consequences.Emphasizing such factors as the rise of the single-family household and of a more sophisticated consumer culture, the long reach and seductive influence of foreign media, and the workings of professional pride and raw ambition in the media industries, Roth-Ey shows a Soviet media empire transformed from within in the postwar era. This, then, was Soviet cultures real prime time and a major achievement for a regime that had long

Author	:	Kristin Roth-Ey
Rating	:	4.87 (992 Votes)
Asin	:	0801448743
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	320 Pages
Publish Date	:	2017-02-17
Language	:	English

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Yet Soviet success also brought complex and unintended consequences.Emphasizing such factors as the rise of the single-family household and of a more sophisticated consumer culture, the long reach and seductive influence of foreign media, and the workings of professional pride and raw ambition in the media industries, Roth-Ey shows a Soviet media empire transformed from within in the postwar era. This, then, was Soviet culture's real prime time and a major achievement for a regime that had long touted easy, everyday access to a socialist cultural experience as a birthright. Soviet people were enthusiast

Kristin Roth-Ey is Lecturer in Modern Russian History at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

MHT in NE Moscow said Don't touch that dial, comrade. "[A] rich and detailed study that tells an important story-within-the-Soviet-story, one with lessons for both media moguls (state or private) and media consumers in the ever-expanding electronic market of the post-post-Soviet age." []

Moreover, Roth-Ey's book contributes positively to the growing historiography on the Soviet Union after Stalin with its focus on mid-level institutional actors within the Soviet system, which thankfully takes us beyond the traditional dissident/repressive-state dichotomy of scholarship on this period."Joshua First, Technology and Culture"The Soviet media machine may not have been ready for the global prime time, but Kristen Roth-Ey most definitely is. The Soviets managed to create formidable media institutions which sought simultaneously to edu