Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union (Communication and Society) - Softcover

Mickiewicz, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195063198 ISBN 13: 9780195063196

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last three decades. In 1960, only five percent of the population had access to TV, but now the viewing population has reached near total saturation. Today's main source of information in the USSR, television has become Mikhail Gorbachev's most powerful instrument for paving the way for major reform.
Containing a wealth of interviews with major Soviet and American media figures and fascinating descriptions of Soviet TV shows, Ellen Mickiewicz's wide-ranging, vividly written volume compares over one hundred hours of Soviet and American television, covering programs broadcast during both the Chernenko and Gorbachev governments. Mickiewicz describes the enormous significance and popularity of news programs and discusses how Soviet journalists work in the United States. Offering a fascinating depiction of the world seen on Soviet TV, she also explores the changes in programming that have occurred as a result of glasnost.

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About the Author

About the Author:
Ellen Mickiewicz is Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory University and Director of the Soviet Media and International Communications Program at The Carter Center. Former President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, she is also the author of Media and the Russian Public.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195063198
• ISBN 13: 9780195063196
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300