Media, culture and society in Putin's Russia
By: edited by Stephen White.
Contributors: White, Stephen, 1945-
Series: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780230524859
Subjects: Civil society -- Russia (Federation); Journalism -- Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-
Description: The nature of the system that has been established in postcommunist Russia is still a puzzle for specialists as well as a broader public. It is hardly a ₁democracy₂ in the Western sense - but neither is it a society in which Communists are still in power. The contributors to this volume, a group of leading international specialists who draw throughout on a wealth of primary data, focus on the issues that are central to any judgment of this kind: whether there is a Russian ₁civil society₂; how autonomous are its media; what kinds of policies does it pursue; and how can the system as a whole best be characterised. These are issues that in turn are central to our understanding of the kind of system that has been established in the world's largest country after a period of far-reaching change from late communism to a form of society we still find it difficult to label.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Civil society and the reconstitution of Russian political space : the case of the Republic of Karelia / Ilkka Liikanen; title: What kind of civil society in Russia? / Diana Schmidt; title: Russian and Estonian civil society discourses compared / Risto Alapuro; title: Journalistic source practices in Russian business dailies / Katja Koikkalainen; title: Journalists in the Russian regions : how different generations view their professional role / Svetlana Pasti and Jukka Pietilainen; title: Debate in Russia over ratifying the Kyoto Protocol : the influence of Soviet networks and new perplexities / Marie-Helene Mandrillon; title: Political capitalism and the Russian media / Markus Soldner; title: Russia's asymmetric capitalism in comparative perspective / David Lane; title: Killers and gangsters : the heroes of Russian blockbusters of the Putin era / Birgit Beumers; title: Drug abuse and HIV/AIDS in Russia / John M. Kramer.