Between Truth and Time

Download or read book Between Truth and Time written by Christine Elaine Evans and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass culture in the Brezhnev era was dull and formulaic. Tracing the emergence of play, conflict, and competition on Soviet news programs, serial films, and variety and game shows, Evans shows that Soviet Central Television’s most popular shows were experimental and creative, laying the groundwork for Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms and the post-Soviet media system.