Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s Inventing the Post-Soviet Public Sphere [#1018864]

Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s: Inventing the Post-Soviet Public Sphere by Maya Vinokour
English | October 14, 2025 | ISBN: 8895060113 | 252 pages | True ePUB, PDF | 48 Mb
Examining Russian-language media from the "long 1990s"-the period beginning with Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost ("openness") and ending with the election of President Vladimir Putin-Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s shows how post-Soviet civil society emerged simultaneously with the explosion of new media, especially a newly liberated television and internet. A brief and contested period of media independence ensued as explosive creativity collided with rank commercialism, journalistic integrity with burgeoning political ambitions, and fringe with mainstream. By the late 1990s, however, the media landscape had succumbed to economic and political exploitation. The causes and nature of this shift, which set the stage for Putin's crackdown on independent media after 2000-as well as Russia's slide into aggressive authoritarianism-are embedded in the era's media artifacts.