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Insider/Outsider Ethnography in Algeria and France | i GOVERNING SOVIET JOURNALISM ii | Acknowledgments Insider/Outsider Ethnography in Algeria and France | iii Governing Soviet Journalism THE PRESS AND THE SOCIALIST PERSON AFTER STALIN THOMAS C. WOLFE Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis iv | Acknowledgments This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail Insider/Outsider Ethnography in Algeria and France | v For my parents vi | Acknowledgments Insider/Outsider Ethnography in Algeria and France | vii CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / ix NOTE ON SOURCES / xi PROLOGUE / xiii Introduction 1 1. Journalism and the Person in the Soviet Sixties 33 2. Agranovskii’s Essays 71 3. Journalism against Socialism, Socialism against Journalism 104 4. Perestroika and the End of Government by Journalism 143 5. Teaching Tabloids 176 Afterword 202 NOTES / 217 BIBLIOGRAPHY / 227 INDEX / 235 viii | Acknowledgments Insider/Outsider Ethnography in Algeria and France | ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This text was made possible by many people who at different times saw the value in trying to make sense of the transformation of Soviet media. Some assistance was immediate and direct, other kinds of help were less obvi- ously tied to the work of research and writing, but without all of it, this book would never have been completed. So, I proceed in no particular order. I want to thank Hubert Rast for mentioning the word “mediation” in an afternoon conversation over coffee in such a way as to fix it indelibly in my consciousness. This book is an outgrowth of that conversation. Kathleen Canning has been a friend, mentor, and teacher; she sets a mar- velous example with her integrity and dedication. The Canning-Rasts long ago became family. Jan Leigh and Michael Fahy, and Tim Hofer and Valerie Kivelson, provided sustaining conversation, warmth and sanity, friendship and full stomachs. We sorely miss being a part of their everyday life. I am also grateful to Marcel Müller, who was so patient with such a dull pupil as he explained the structures of fiction. David Labiosa and Jerry Root have been dear friends who have taught me a great deal, from grilling in adverse weather conditions to Caribbean literature. Tom Williamson has helped with numerous conversations both in Michigan and Minnesota that al- ways leave me thinking about something from a new angle. My advisers shaped the book from its earliest and sketchiest beginnings: Jane Burbank showed me immense generosity, support, and encouragement, both intel- lectually and practically, by introducing me to networks of friends in Mos- cow who helped make fieldwork such an enriching and fascinating experi- ence; and I am grateful to Nick Dirks for many important conversations about everything from Franz Fanon to the Goodyear blimp, conversations that I continue to replay in my head years later. Ron Suny’s sense of schol- arship as serious pleasure and his sense of Soviet humanism have never ceased to challenge and inspire. Michael Kennedy pointed me to Claude Lefort; Geoff Eley tolerated my comparison of Habermas and Foucault. David Cohen encouraged me to open boxes and ideas; Fernando Coronil prodded me along with strings of challenges and insights. In recent years I have benefited from the support and critical readings of my colleagues in the History Department at the University of Minne
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