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Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s: Inventing the Post-Soviet Public Sphere

Edited by Maya Vinokour

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Examining Russian-language media from the â€œlong 1990sâ€â€”the period beginning with Mikhail Gorbachevâ€™s policy of glasnost (â€œopennessâ€) and ending with the election of President Vladimir Putinâ€”Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s shows how post-Soviet civil society emerged simultaneously with the explosion of new media, especially a newly liberated television and internet. A brief and contested period of media independence ensued as explosive creativity collided with rank commercialism, journalistic integrity with burgeoning political ambitions, and fringe with mainstream. By the late 1990s, however, the media landscape had succumbed to economic and political exploitation. The causes and nature of this shift, which set the stage for Putinâ€™s crackdown on independent media after 2000â€”as well as Russiaâ€™s slide into aggressive authoritarianismâ€”are embedded in the eraâ€™s media artifacts. Written by an interdisciplinary group of experts, this edited collection addresses the mutual influence among disparate spheres of public life that enabled the media â€œWild Westâ€ of the first post-Soviet decade. As a joint platform, the volume and the associated Multimedia Sourcebook of the Russian 1990s present the decadeâ€™s media cultures in a manner that reflects their historical interconnectedness and relationship to the global present. Edited by Maya Vinokour with contributions from Bradley Gorski, Courtney Doucette, Fabrizio Fenghi, Rita Safariants, Daniil Leiderman, Thomas Keenan, and Pavel Khazanov.