{"product_id":"news-from-moscow-soviet-journalism-and-the-limits-of-postwar-reform","title":"News from Moscow Soviet Journalism and the Limits of Postwar Reform","description":"\u003cp\u003eNews 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\n\u003cbr\u003eimplement new ideas that would help usher the country towards Communism. The volume focuses on both aspects of the journalists' role, from propaganda editorials in praise of Comrade Stalin and articles lauding young heroes'\n\u003cbr\u003eexploits in the Virgin Lands, to revolutionary new initiatives, such as the country's first ever polling institute and clubs promoting the virtues of unfettered public debate. Soviet journalism, argues Huxtable, was riven with an unresolvable tension between innovation and conservativism: the more journalists tried to promote new innovations to perfect Soviet society, the more officials grew anxious about the disruptive consequences of reform. By demonstrating the day-to-day conflicts that\n\u003cbr\u003echaracterised the press's activity, and by showing that the production of Soviet propaganda involved much more than redrafting orders from above, News from Moscow offers a new perspective on Soviet\n\u003cbr\u003epropaganda that expands our understanding of the possibilities and limits of reform in a period of rapid change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156478128366,"sku":"9780192857699","price":195.51,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780192857699.jpg?v=1706236471","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/news-from-moscow-soviet-journalism-and-the-limits-of-postwar-reform","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}