Komrades to the Rescue: Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Ukraine in 2014 through the Lens of Izvestiia
Journal: Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)
Year: 2015

This thesis examines communist and post-communist press texts, as they are represented in the Russian newspaper Izvestiia. Taking a before-and-after approach, two case studies are performed, as well as compared and contrasted. The first examines articles documenting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Using the same newspaper title, the second investigates news coverage of the crisis over Ukraine in 2014. The study employs a Cold War framework to examine and correlate questions about