This meticulously researched and well-written book highlights the central role that journalism played in most political, social, and cultural processes in the postwar Soviet Union...A pleasure to read, this book fills a large lacuna in our understanding of the Soviet information universe.
Simon Huxtable is Lecturer in Modern European History at Birkbeck, University of London. His work focuses on the history of the Soviet Union, with a particular focus on mass media. He is the co-author, with Sabina Mihelj, of From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television (2018) and has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on the history of the press and television in the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe.