From Truth to Time: Soviet Central Television, 1957-1985
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2010

The Brezhnev era (1964-1982) was also the era of television. The First Channel of Moscow's Central Television Studio began to reach all eleven Soviet time zones in the same years, 1965-1970, that marked the beginning of a new political era, the period of decline, corruption, and cynicism, but also stability, relative prosperity, and vibrant popular culture, that came to be called, retrospectively, the &amp;ldquo;era of stagnation.&amp;rdquo; Nearly all of the iconic images and sounds of this per