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Between Truth and Time
A History of Soviet Central Television
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Christine Elaine Evans
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English
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2016
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The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television’s production and programming in the decades before perestroika
In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass culture in the Brezhnev era was dull and formulaic. Tracing the emergence of play, conflict, and competition on Soviet news programs, serial films, and variety and game shows, Evans shows that Soviet Central Television’s most popular shows were experimental and creative, laying the groundwork for Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms and the post-Soviet media system.
In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass culture in the Brezhnev era was dull and formulaic. Tracing the emergence of play, conflict, and competition on Soviet news programs, serial films, and variety and game shows, Evans shows that Soviet Central Television’s most popular shows were experimental and creative, laying the groundwork for Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms and the post-Soviet media system.
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Christine E. Evans is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She lives in Milwaukee, WI.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Stagnation and Experimentation in the Russian Era of Television
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CHAPTER ONE. Not a Mirror but a Magnifying Glass: Soviet Television Enthusiasm
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CHAPTER TWO. Programmnaia Politika: Audience Research and the Creation of the Channel 1 Schedule
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CHAPTER THREE. From Café to Contest: New Year’s Variety Shows and the Soviet Festive System
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CHAPTER FOUR. Time and the Problem of Boredom
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CHAPTER FIVE. “Spiritual Coauthorship”: Seventeen Moments of Spring and the Soviet TV Miniseries
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CHAPTER SIX. “KVN Is an Honest Game”: Game Shows and the Problem of Authority
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CHAPTER SEVEN. A Dress Rehearsal for Life: Artloto and What? Where? When?
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EPILOGUE. The Origins of Central Television’s Perestroika
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook ISBN:
9780300208962
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