Closer to the masses : Stalinist culture, social revolution, and Soviet newspapers / Matthew Lenoe.
Closer to the masses : Stalinist culture, social revolution, and Soviet newspapers / Matthew Lenoe.
Closer to the masses : Stalinist culture, social revolution, and Soviet newspapers / Matthew Lenoe.
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Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N302.23094/ 3
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
I. Soviet newspapers in the 1920s -- 1. Agitation, propaganda, and the NEP Mass Enlightenment Project -- 2. Newspaper distribution and the emergence of Soviet information rationing -- 3. Reader response and its impact on the press -- II. The creation of mass journalism and socialist realism -- 4. Th...
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Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2004.
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"In this book, Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the late 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a story of purges, political intrigues, and social upheaval.".
"Under pressure from the party leadership to mobilize society for the monumental task of industrialization, journalists shaped a master narrative for Soviet history and helped create a Bolshevik identity for millions of new communists. Everyday labor became an epic battle to modernize the USSR, a fight not only against imperialists from outside but...
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Closer to the masses : Stalinist culture, social revolution, and Soviet newspapers / Matthew Lenoe.
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Russian Research Center studies ; 95.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N302.23094/ 3
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ISBN
0674013190 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780674013193 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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302.230947
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991019409279702626
