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Closer to the masses : Stalinist culture, social revolution, and Soviet newspapers / Matthew Lenoe

Lenoe, Matthew E. [Verfasser]

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (viii, 315 pages)

Russian Research Center studies ; 95

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-302) and index

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

0-674-01319-0 ; 978-0-674-01319-3 ; 978-0-674-04008-3 ; 0-674-04008-2

AP 23250

 

Zeitung  Journalismus  Sowjetunion  Politik  Geschichte 1920-1929 

"In this book, Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the late 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a story of purges, political intrigues, and social upheaval." "Under pressure from the party leadership to mobilize society for the monumental task of industrialization, journalists shaped a master narrative for Soviet history and helped create a Bolshevik identity for millions of new communists. Everyday labor became an epic battle to modernize the USSR, a fight not only against imperialists from outside but also against shirkers and saboteurs within. Soviet newspapermen mobilized party activists by providing them with an identity as warrior heroes battling for socialism. Yet within the framework of propaganda directives, the rank-and-file journalists improvised in ways that ultimately contributed to the creation of a culture. The images and metaphors crafted by Soviet journalists became the core of Stalinist culture in the mid-1930s and influenced the development of socialist realism."--Jacket.