Promotional Information

Examines the pivotal role of the media in creating Soviet society and personhood.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Sources
Prologue
Introduction
1. Journalism and the Person in the Soviet Sixties
2. Agranovskii's Essays
3. Journalism against Socialism, Socialism against Journalism
4. Perestroika and the End of Government by Journalism
5. Teaching Tabloids
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Thomas C. Wolfe is Assistant Professor of History and Anthropology and in the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Reviews

. . . Governing Soviet Journalism offers an interesting narrative of the stance of the press across different periods. The material from the former party archive is particularly interesting. . .
*Journal of Cold War Studies*

. . . Recommended. College and research libraries.
*Choice*

[Draws] on recent theories of media and communication [and] also deserves to be read as one of the most compelling arguments available for the utility of the Foucauldian concept of governmentality. The importance of attending to the ways in which different kinds of modern subjects have been shaped through the regulation of the 'conduct of conduct' are nowhere more effectively and lucidly explored than here. . . .Vol. 7.3 2006
*Miami University*