Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World

This collection covers the major trends of the media environment of the post-Communist world and their recent development, with special focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. The term ‘media environment’ covers not just traditional print and electronic media, but new media as well, and ranges from the political to entertainment and various artistic spheres. What role do market forces play in the process of media democratization, and how do state structures regulate, suppress, or use capitalism toward their own gain? What degree of informational pluralism has been achieved in the newly independent republics? What are the prospects for transparency and the participation of civil society in Russian and Eurasian media? To what degree do trends in post-Communist media reflect global trends? Is there a worldwide convergence with regard to both media formats and political messaging? Western observers usually pay their keenest attention to the role of media in Russia and Eurasia during national elections. While this is a valid focus, the present volume, with contributions by Luca Anceschi, Jonathan Becker, Lee B. Becker, Michael Cecire, Marta Dyczok, Nicola Ying Fry, Navbahor Imamova, Azamat Junisbai, Barbara Junisbai, Kornely Kakachia, Maria Lipman, Oleg Manaev, Marintha Miles, Olena Nikolayenko, Sarah Oates, Tamara Pataraia, Elisabeth Schimpfossl, Abdulfattoh Shafiev, Jack Snyder, Tudor Vlad, and Ilya Yablokov, aims at understanding the deeper overall ‘media philosophies’ that characterize post-Soviet media systems and environments, and the type of identity formation that they are promoting.

Marlene Laruelle

Dr. Marlene Laruelle ist Forschungsprofessorin für Internationale Studien und Politikwissenschaft an der George Washington University in Washington, DC, und Direktorin des dortigen Programms für Illiberalismusstudien.

Peter Rollberg

Tudor Vlad

Lee B. Becker

Jack Snyder

Maria Lipman

Maria Lipman studied linguistics at Moscow State University. She was co-founder and deputy editor of the Russian weekly news magazines Itogi (“Summing up”), published in cooperation with Newsweek, from 1995 to 2001, and Ezhenedel’nyi zhurnal (“Weekly magazine”) from 2001 to 2003. Lipman was editor-in-chief of the policy journal Pro et Contra (Carnegie Moscow Center) from 2005 to 2014. From 2015 till 2018, she edited the Russian analytical quarterly Counterpoint, published by the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University, DC. She has co-edited and contributed to several volumes, including The New Autocracy (Brookings Institution 2018) and Putin’s Russia (Rowman & Littlefield 2019). From 2001 till 2011, Lipman wrote op-ed columns on Russian politics, media, and society for The Washington Post, and, 2012–2017, for The New Yorker online.

Jonathan Becker

Marta Dyczok

Marta Dyczok, D. Phil. (Oxford), is an Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Political Science, Western University, Canada, Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, and Adjunct Professor at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Her books include Ukraine’s Euromaidan: Broadcasting through Information Wars with Hromadske Radio (E-IR 2016) Ukraine Twenty Years After Independence: Assessments, Perspectives, Challenges (Aracne editrice 2015), Media, Democracy and Freedom: The Post-Communist Experience (Peter Lang 2009), and The Grand Alliance and Ukrainian Refugees (Palgrave Macmillan 2000). Her papers have been published in, among others, Europe-Asia Studies, Demokratizatsiya, and Canadian Slavonic Papers.

Oleg Manaev

Barbara Junisbai

Azamat Junisbai

Nicola Ying Fry

Kornely Kakachia

Tamara Pataraia

Michael Cecire

Elisabeth Schimpfossl

Ilya Yablokov

Sarah Oates

Luca Anceschi

Abdulfattoh Shafiev

Marintha Miles

Olena Nikolayenko

Navbahor Imamova

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Contributions by	Marlene Laruelle , Peter Rollberg , Tudor Vlad , Lee B. Becker , Jack Snyder , Maria Lipman , Jonathan Becker , Marta Dyczok , Oleg Manaev , Barbara Junisbai , Azamat Junisbai , Nicola Ying Fry , Kornely Kakachia , Tamara Pataraia , Michael Cecire , Elisabeth Schimpfossl , Ilya Yablokov , Sarah Oates , Luca Anceschi , Abdulfattoh Shafiev , Marintha Miles , Olena Nikolayenko , Navbahor Imamova
Number of Pages	460
Publication date	30.03.2018
E-book format	PDF
Language	English
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ISBN	978-3-8382-7116-3
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“Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World is a truly remarkable new collection of essays addressing one of the most important questions in the post-Communist space-the role of mass media. With contributions from some of the foremost experts, the essays offer a deep and subtle analysis of problems and opportunities in the media sphere. Moreover, while the essays recognize the important role of Russian media in general and television in particular, they range much more broadly across the Soviet space providing invaluable insight from around the region and from different media platforms. This is an exceptional collection that will be invaluable to anyone wanting to understand the politics and role of media in post-Soviet societies.”—Graeme Robertson, Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"This book provides the best available analysis of the complexity of media ecologies in post-Soviet societies. Taking their analysis beyond the critique of the democratic deficit, contributors offer new insights into how a range of domestic and global factors converge to create new media models which combine governmental control with catering to diverse audiences."—Vera Tolz, Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies, the University of Manchester, author of Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television (Routledge, 2015)
"This edited volume is an interesting collection of compelling case studies and comparative analyses that offer a variety of interdisciplinary thoughts on how to understand the role of mass media in the post-Soviet world."—Europe-Asia Studies 71:5 (2019)