Governing Soviet Journalism: The Press and the Socialist Person after Stalin

The Soviet project of creating a new culture and society entailed a plan
for the modeling of "new" persons who embodied and fulfilled the promise
of socialism, and this vision was expressed in the institutions of government. Using
archival sources, essays, and interviews with journalists, Thomas C. Wolfe provides
an account of the final four decades of Soviet history viewed through the lens of
journalism and media. Whereas most studies of the Soviet press approach its history
in terms of pr...