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Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia » (New Edition)

Book cover image of Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia by Ellen Mickiewicz

Authors: Ellen Mickiewicz
ISBN-13: 9780195101638, ISBN-10: 0195101634
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: May 1997
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Ellen Mickiewicz

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.

Book Synopsis

The role television has played, and continues to play, in Russia’s transition to democracy.

Table of Contents

Preface to Revised and Enlarged Edition
Preface
1Television: The Prize3
2Soviet Television Rulers and Their Empire23
3Closely Watched Targets: The Nightly News, the Military, and Lenin52
4Pushing the Envelope: Reforming from Within65
5Viewers and Voters: The First Competitive Elections and the Rise of Alternative News83
6Television and Crisis: The End of Soviet Rule98
7Between Putsch and Revolt109
8Pictures, Parties, and Leaders: Television and Elections in the New Russia135
9Room for Views: Television and the Play of Controversial Positions190
10The Media Market: Politics, Commerce, and Press Freedom217
11Television at War: Private Television News Under Fire242
12Changing Channels on the Most Powerful Medium264
Afterword274
Notes305
Chronology351
Index355

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