What is it about?

Did Russian media ever managed to abandon Soviet practices or it still largely remain a face-lifted version of Communist press?

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Why is it important?

In XXIst century, political regimes become more dependent on mass media, and vice versa. Failed democratization of Russia provided a few crystal clear examples of an authoritarian restoration of the principles that look abandoned: censorship, cadre management, clientelle etc.

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As a collaboration with my younger colleagues, this work provides a combination of academic assessment, personal and collective memoir and explanatory theory.

Vasily Gatov
Southern California University of Health Sciences

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This page is a summary of: From Soviet to Russian Media Managers, Russian Politics, March 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/2451-8921-00201002.
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