The Global and the National Media and Communications in Post-Communist Russia

This original book explores the development of post-Soviet media and communications in Russia--a newly globalized environment following radical social change. Unique empirical research on new communications technologies, news agencies, television, and advertising in Russia shows how the experience and effects of globalization, which initially played a liberating role in the downfall of communism, are being transformed by the reassertion of the national. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Terhi Rantanen is director of the MSc in Global Media and Communications Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science