Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War PDF
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Museum prime time MDSCDIil PR IM E TIM E HDI1I THE SOVIET UNION DUILT THE MEDIA EMPIRE THAT LOST THE CULTURAL COLD IUAR KBISTIN BDTH-EY CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON Copyright © 2011 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. First published 2011 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Roth-Ey, Kristin Joy Moscow prime time : how the Soviet Union built the media empire that lost the cultural Cold War / Kristin Roth-Ey. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8014-4874-4 (cloth : alk. paper) i. Mass media policy—Soviet Union. 2. Motion picture industry— Government policy—Soviet Union. 3. Radio broadcasting policy—Soviet Union. 4. Television broadcasting policy—Soviet Union. 5. Soviet Union—Cultural policy. I. Title. P95.82.S65R654 2011 302.23*09409045—dc2o 2010047282 Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetable-based, low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled, totally chlorine-free, or partly composed of nonwood fibers. For further information, visit our website atwww.comellpress.comell.edu. Cloth printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For my father, John J. Roth (1940-2004), who would have loved to see this book, and for David Roth-Ey, whose love means more than all books CONTENTS List of Abbreviations, ix Introduction: Soviet Culture in the Media Age, i 1 The Soviet Film Industry: Defining Cinematic Success after Stalin, 25 z The New Soviet Movie Culture, 71 2 What Was Said When the Muses Were Heard: Foreign Radio in Soviet Contexts, 131 M Finding a Home for Television in the USSR, 176 B Television and Authority in Soviet Culture, 223 Epilogue, 281 Selected Bibliography, 287 Acknowledgments, 301 Index, 305 ABBREVIATIONS Moscow, Russia GARF Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii RGALI Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv literatury i iskusstva RGANI Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv noveishei istorii RGASPI Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial'no-politicheskoi istorii RGASPI-m Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial'no-politicheskoi istorii-m (formerly Tsentr khraneniia dokumentov molodezhnykh organizatsii) TsAOPIM Tsentral'nyi arkhiv obshchestvenno-politicheskoi istorii Moskvy (formerly Tsentral'nyi arkhiv obshchestvennykh dvizhenii Moskvy) Gosteleradiofond Gosudarstvennyi fond televizionnykh i radioprogramm Kyiv, Ukraine TsDAHOU Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv hromads'kykh ob'ednam' Ukrainy TsDAVO Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv vishchikh organiv vladi ta upravlinnia Ukrainy Budapest, Hungary OSA Open Society Archive
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