Media, Culture and Society in Putin's RussiaStephen White This is an international collection of papers focused on media, culture and society in post-communist Russia. Given the heightened interest/fear in the Putin administration, this book should reach a broad and interested audience. Several of the chapters are based on field research and present solid empirical evidence to support arguments developed by the authors. A timely set of contributions give current debates the viability of the existence of civil society and media freedom under the Putin presidency. The 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. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Civil Society and the Reconstitution of Russian Political | 7 |
What Kind of Civil Society in Russia? | 37 |
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