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Authors: Ellen Mickiewicz
ISBN-13: 9780195101638, ISBN-10: 0195101634
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: May 1997
Edition: New Edition
Ellen Mickiewicz is James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy Studies and Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism at Duke University. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union.
The role television has played, and continues to play, in Russia’s transition to democracy.
Preface to Revised and Enlarged Edition | ||
Preface | ||
1 | Television: The Prize | 3 |
2 | Soviet Television Rulers and Their Empire | 23 |
3 | Closely Watched Targets: The Nightly News, the Military, and Lenin | 52 |
4 | Pushing the Envelope: Reforming from Within | 65 |
5 | Viewers and Voters: The First Competitive Elections and the Rise of Alternative News | 83 |
6 | Television and Crisis: The End of Soviet Rule | 98 |
7 | Between Putsch and Revolt | 109 |
8 | Pictures, Parties, and Leaders: Television and Elections in the New Russia | 135 |
9 | Room for Views: Television and the Play of Controversial Positions | 190 |
10 | The Media Market: Politics, Commerce, and Press Freedom | 217 |
11 | Television at War: Private Television News Under Fire | 242 |
12 | Changing Channels on the Most Powerful Medium | 264 |
Afterword | 274 | |
Notes | 305 | |
Chronology | 351 | |
Index | 355 |