Overview
- Provides an overview of media and communication development in Soviet society up to the death of Stalin
- Covers a wide range of media formats, distinguishing between tactile channels and media
- Surveys the boundaries and flows that structured the Soviet communicative environment
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This book provides a systematic account of media and communication development in Soviet society from the October Revolution to the death of Stalin. Summarizing earlier research and drawing upon previously unpublished archival materials, it covers the main aspects of public and private interaction in the Soviet Union, from public broadcast to kitchen gossip.
The first part of the volume covers visual, auditory and tactile channels, such as posters, maps and monuments. The second deals with media, featuring public gatherings, personal letters, telegraph, telephone, film and radio. The concluding part surveys major boundaries and flows structuring the Soviet communicate environment. The broad scope of contributions to this volume will be of great interest to students and researchers working on the Soviet Union, and twentieth-century media and communication more broadly.
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Reviews
‘Rich in empirical material and diverse in methodological approaches, this volume shows how the formative decades of the Soviet society were shaped by various forms and modes of expression, including its suppression. The coverage is very broad – from interpersonal interactions (such as kitchen gossip) to public events (such as religious rituals) to mass communication (such as radio broadcasts). Whether the contributors analyze conversational turn-taking or messaging devices, whatever media becomes an object of their analysis – auditory, visual, tactile, or electronic, the volume is always focused on the Soviet society as a system, viewed in terms of integration and control, power and resistance, authority and freedom. The reader of this volume will have a deeper understanding of how social bonds and boundaries were created during those early decades, and also how their intended and unintended consequences impact today’s social dynamics in Russia. The volume will appeal to anyone interested in Soviet and Russian society, as well as theory, history, and ecology of communication.’
—Igor Kluykanov, Professor of Communication, Eastern Washington University.
‘This is an all-inclusive tome; an invaluable resource for anyone interested in visual and material sources as well as corporeal forms of communication in a totalitarian society. It highlights the reliance on various means of communication in order to maintain control while embracing the sensory and bodily challenges to power. This is an incredibly innovative analysis of communication and media in an extraordinary time and the book will become an instant classic for both scholars and students of Soviet history.’
—Rósa Magnúsdóttir, Professor of History, University of Iceland.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kirill Postoutenko is Senior Researcher in the Special Research Area 1288 (Practices of Comparison) at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Alexey Tikhomirov is Assistant Professor of East European History at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Dmitri Zakharine is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Media and Communication in the Soviet Union (1917–1953)
Book Subtitle: General Perspectives
Editors: Kirill Postoutenko, Alexey Tikhomirov, Dmitri Zakharine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88367-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88366-9Published: 02 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88369-0Published: 03 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88367-6Published: 01 March 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 440
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Media and Communication, Cultural History, Social History