Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cold War

摘要

Kristin Roth-Ey's Moscow Prime Time interweaves an analysis of Soviet cinema "as an industry" with the much-less-studied phenomena of Soviet radio and television. Her story of the USSR's mass-media explosion after Stalin provides technology and culture scholars with a complex understanding of how a socialist regime used media in some remarkably similar ways to Western capitalist countries, though there also were distinct differences.