Title Closer to the masses : Stalinist culture, social revolution, and Soviet newspapers / Matthew Lenoe

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 315 pages) Series Russian Research Center studies ; 95 Russian Research Center studies ; 95. Contents I. Soviet newspapers in the 1920s -- 1. Agitation, propaganda, and the NEP Mass Enlightenment Project -- 2. Newspaper distribution and the emergence of Soviet information rationing -- 3. Reader response and its impact on the press -- II. The creation of mass journalism and socialist realism -- 4. The creation of mass journalism -- 5. Mass journalists, "Cultural revolution," and the retargeting of Soviet newspapers -- 6. The central committee and self-criticism, 1928-1929 -- 7. Mass journalism, "Soviet sensations," and socialist realism Summary "In this book, Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the late 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a story of purges, political intrigues, and social upheaval." "Under pressure from the party leadership to mobilize society for the monumental task of industrialization, journalists shaped a master narrative for Soviet history and helped create a Bolshevik identity for millions of new communists. Everyday labor became an epic battle to modernize the USSR, a fight not only against imperialists from outside but also against shirkers and saboteurs within. Soviet newspapermen mobilized party activists by providing them with an identity as warrior heroes battling for socialism. Yet within the framework of propaganda directives, the rank-and-file journalists improvised in ways that ultimately contributed to the creation of a culture. The images and metaphors crafted by Soviet journalists became the core of Stalinist culture in the mid-1930s and influenced the development of socialist realism."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-302) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Press and propaganda -- Soviet Union -- History Communism and culture -- Soviet Union -- History Socialist realism -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union Communism and culture Press and propaganda Socialist realism Perswezen. Nieuwsbladen. Propaganda. Stalinisme. Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2004042214 ISBN 0674013190 9780674013193 9780674040083 0674040082

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