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Political Capitalism and the Russian Media

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Media, Culture and Society in Putin’s Russia

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Abstract

The Russian media system has changed dramatically over the past twenty years. The changes were already initiated well before the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the course of perestroika and glasnost’, print media outlets in particular achieved a remarkable degree of freedom. Although the state and Communist Party remained largely in control of the media sector, censorship was reduced drastically. Newspapers and magazines, slowly but surely, began to acquire more and more characteristics and functions of what is usually called the ‘fourth estate’.

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Soldner, M. (2008). Political Capitalism and the Russian Media. In: White, S. (eds) Media, Culture and Society in Putin’s Russia. Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583078_8

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