News from Moscow: Soviet Journalism and the Limits of Postwar Reform

by Simon Huxtable

News from Moscow is a social and cultural history of Soviet journalism after World War II. Focusing on the youth newspaper Komsomol'skaia Pravda, the study draws on transcripts of behind-the-scenes editorial meetings to chart the changing professional ethos of the Soviet journalist. Simon Huxtable shows how journalists viewed themselves both as propagandists bringing the Party's ideas to the wider public, but also as reformers who tried to implement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019285769X
• ISBN13: 9780192857699
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"