Governing Soviet Journalism: The Press and the Socialist Person after Stalin

Author:   Thomas C. Wolfe
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253345899


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   08 June 2005
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Thomas C. Wolfe
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780253345899


ISBN 10:   0253345898
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   08 June 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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.. . Governing Soviet Journalism offers an interesting narrative of the stance of the press across different periods. The material from the former party archive is particularly interesting... Journal of Cold War Studies


<p> [Draws] on recent theories of media and communication [and] alsodeserves to be read as one of the most compelling arguments available for theutility of the Foucauldian concept of governmentality. The importance of attendingto the ways in which different kinds of modern subjects have been shaped through theregulation of the 'conduct of conduct' are nowhere more effectively and lucidlyexplored than here.... -- Douglas Rogers, Miami University, Kritika: ExplorationsRussian & Eurasian History, Vol. 7.3 2006--Douglas Rogers, Miami University Kritika: Explorations Russian & Eurasian History (01/01/2006)


. . . Recommended. College and research libraries. * Choice * . . . Governing Soviet Journalism offers an interesting narrative of the stance of the press across different periods. The material from the former party archive is particularly interesting. . . * Journal of Cold War Studies * [Draws] on recent theories of media and communication [and] also deserves to be read as one of the most compelling arguments available for the utility of the Foucauldian concept of governmentality. The importance of attending to the ways in which different kinds of modern subjects have been shaped through the regulation of the 'conduct of conduct' are nowhere more effectively and lucidly explored than here. . . .Vol. 7.3 2006 -- Douglas Rogers * Miami University *


[Draws] on recent theories of media and communication [and] also deserves to be read as one of the most compelling arguments available for the utility of the Foucauldian concept of governmentality. The importance of attending to the ways in which different kinds of modern subjects have been shaped through the regulation of the 'conduct of conduct' are nowhere more effectively and lucidly explored than here.... Douglas Rogers, Miami University, Kritika: Explorations Russian & Eurasian History, Vol. 7.3 2006--Douglas Rogers, Miami University Kritika: Explorations Russian & Eurasian History


<p> [Draws] on recent theories of media and communication [and] alsodeserves to be read as one of the most compelling arguments available for theutility of the Foucauldian concept of governmentality. The importance of attendingto the ways in which different kinds of modern subjects have been shaped through theregulation of the 'conduct of conduct' are nowhere more effectively and lucidlyexplored than here.... -- Douglas Rogers, Miami University, Kritika: ExplorationsRussian & Eurasian History, Vol. 7.3 2006


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Thomas C. Wolfe is Assistant Professor of History and Anthropology and in the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.

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