The Post-Soviet Russian Media : Conflicting Signals (Paperback)

Introduction Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova  Part One: Media, Politics and State  1. Free to get rich and fool around Ivan Zassoursky  2. Where did it all go wrong? Russian television in the Putin era John A. Dunn  3. Shifting media and the failure of political communication in Russia Samuel A. Greene  4. The end of independent television? Elite conflict and the reconstructing the Russian television landscape Tina Burrett  Part 2: The Language of the Media  5. Putin and the tradition of the interview in Russian discourse Anna Maslennikova 6. What’s in a foreign word: Negotiating linguistic culture on Russian radio programmes about language Lara Ryazanova-Clarke Part 3: The Media and Memory 7. The conundrum of memory: Young people and their recollections of Soviet television Ellen Mickiewicz 8. Commemorating the past/performing the present: Television coverage of WWII victory celebrations and the (de)construction of Russian nationhood Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova Part 4: Culture, State and Empire in Television Serials  9. The culture of serialization, or the serialization of culture Birgit Beumers  10. The State Face: The empire’s televisual imagination Nancy Condee  Part 5: New Media, Censorship and Identity  11. New media, new Russians, new abroad: Towards a non-nationalist paradigm Robert Saunders 12. Russia’s internet media policies: Open space and ideological closure Vlad Strukov