Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: The Russian Media and the War in Ukraine, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2015) - Softcover

Gaufman, Elizaveta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3838207262 ISBN 13: 9783838207261

Publisher: Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag, 2015

Synopsis

The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope and nature. Increasingly lurid in form, sometimes surreal, the Russian state-media propaganda campaign has been surprisingly successful in disguising and distorting the nature of the war and shaping the way it is perceived and understood, both in Russia and beyond.This special issue sets out to launch an interdisciplinary discussion on the Russian information warfare being waged in parallel with the military war in Ukraine. How is the war being packaged and narrated for domestic and international audiences? How are these narratives being received in Russia and in the West? How do we interpret and explain the imperial hysteria and hatred currently on display on Russian TV? What are the appropriate responses? How can we avoid the trap of allowing Kremlin propagandists to shape the terms and language in which the war is viewed? The JOURNAL OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY is a new bi-annual journal about to be launched as a companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland, Dr. phil., Ph. D.). Like the book series, the journal will provide an interdisciplinary forum for new original research on the Soviet and post-Soviet world. The journal aims to become known for publishing creative, intelligent and lively writing tackling and illuminating significant issues and capable of engaging wider educated audiences beyond the academy.

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The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fueled, and legitimized by an unprecedented information campaign. Russia's propaganda has been surprisingly successful in distorting the war and the way it is perceived and understood. This special inaugural issue of JSPPS launches an interdisciplinary discussion of the Russian war of information being waged in tandem with the military war in Ukraine.

Review:

Fedor's book Russia & the Cult of State Security (2012) has filled a historiographical gap.... The author gives us the keys necessary for decoding these... discourses and, beyond that, the worldview of these men, an indispensable method for gaining knowledge of the Soviet past but also, in Putin's Russia, for understanding the Russian present.--Andrei Kozovoi, University of Lille 3

About this edition

• Publisher: Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3838207262
• ISBN 13: 9783838207261
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 334