Entangled Evolutions: Media and Democratization in Eastern Europe

by Peter Gross

The revolutions of 1989 swept away Eastern Europe's communist governments and created expectations on the part of many observers that post-communist media would lead the liberated societies in establishing and embracing democratic political cultures. Peter Gross finds that it was utopian to hold such expectations of the media in societies in transition. On the one hand, those countries' media professionals had all learned their jobs under the communist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801868521
• ISBN13: 9780801868528
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"