Media and Communication in the Soviet Union (1917-1953): General Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783030883669 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 466 str.

Postoutenko, Kirill

Spis treści

1. Soviet Communication and Soviet Society (1917–1953): Alignments and Tensions

Part I Channels

2. Visual Channels (1): Posters and Fine Art

3. Visual Channels (2): Cityscapes

4. Visual Channels (3): Cartography

5. Auditory Channels: Crowing Roosters and Wailing Sirens

6. Tactile Channels: Brotherly Kisses, Handshakes, and Flogging in a Bathhouse

Part II Media

7. Public Body (1): Popular Assemblies

8. Public Body (2): Mass Festivals

9. Public Body (3): State Celebrations and Street Festivities

10. Private Body: Kitchen Gossip and Bedroom Whispers

11. Public Print (1): Books and Periodicals

12. Public Print (2): Coins and Bank Notes

13. Private Handwriting (1): Diaries

14. Private Handwriting (2): Personal Letters

15. Private Handwriting (3): Denunciations

16. Private/Public Handwriting: Self-reports

17. Electrical Signaling (1): Telegraph

18. Electrical Signaling (2): Telephone

19. Electrical Signaling (3): Film

20. Electrical Signaling (4): Radio

Part III Boundaries and Flows

21. Boundaries (1): "Nomenclatura" Versus the Rest

22. Boundaries (2): "Comrades" vs. Deviants

23. Top-down Verbal Messaging: Textbooks

24. Bottom-up Non-verbal Messaging: Applause

25. Top-down Extraction of Bottom-up Messages: Surveillance 

O autorze

Kirill Postoutenko is Senior Researcher in the Special Research Area 1288 (Practices of Comparison) at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Alexey Tikhomirov is Assistant Professor of East European History at Bielefeld University, Germany. 

Dmitri Zakharine is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Freiburg, Germany.