Media, Culture and Society in Putin's Russia

IIKKA LIIKANEN Professor, Director of Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Finland. DIANA SCHMIDT Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen, Germany. RISTO ALAPURO Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland. KATJA KOIKKALAINEN University of Tampere, Finland. SVETLANA PASTI Department of Journalism, Unviersity of Tampere, Finland. JUKKA PIETILA INEN Journalist MARIE-HAeLAeNE MANDRILLON Centre d'Aetudes des Mondes Russe, Paris, France. MARKUS SOLDNER Institute or Political Science, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. DAVID LANE Professor, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK. BIRGIT BEUMERS Department of Russian Studies, University of Bristol, UK. JOHN M. KRAMER Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Mary Washington, USA.

An international collection of papers focused on media, culture and society in postcommunist Russia. Contributors deploy a wealth of primary data in examining the kinds of issues that 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.An international collection of papers focused on media, culture and society in postcommunist Russia. Contributors deploy a wealth of primary data in examining the kinds of issues that 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.