McReynolds The News under Russia's Old Regime

The Development of a Mass-Circulation Press
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-6232-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

In this lively account of the rise of a commercial newspaper industry in imperial Russia, Louise McReynolds explores how the mass-circulation press created a forum for popular opinion advocating political change. From the Great Reforms of Tsar Alexander II in 1855 to the Bolsheviks' shut-down of the newspapers in 1917, she chronicles the exploits of publishers and editors, writers and readers. Arguing that this prosperous industry both expressed and shaped the development of ideas among new social groups, McReynolds provides insight into the growth in Russia of a fragile pluralism characteristic of modern societies. Her discussion of the relationship between communications and politics, which draws especially on Jurgen Habermas, combines a variety of interrelated ingredients: institutional histories of major newspapers, biographical sketches of journalists, the intellectual impact of the new language of newspaper journalism, the political ramifications of public opinion under the auspices of an autocratic government. Comparing the Russian press with independent commercial newspaper industries in the United States, England, and France, McReynolds examines the extent to which Russia was evolving according to Western political and socioeconomic patterns before the Bolshevik Revolution.

Originally published in 1991.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

McReynolds, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Illustrations, pg. vii
Tables, pg. ix
Acknowledgments, pg. xi
Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and Tables, pg. xiii
Introduction, pg. 3
1. The Origins of the Mass-Circulation Press, pg. 11
2. The Transition to Commercial Independence, 1863-1876, pg. 30
3. The Newspaper from the Boulevard, 1864-1876, pg. 52
4. The News Shapes the Medium: War and Assassination, 1876-1881, pg. 73
5. The Newspaper in Battle with the "Thick" Journal: Commercialization and Objectivity in the 1880s, pg. 97
6. The Grounding of a Public Institution in the 1890s, pg. 123
7. The Newspaper Reporter, pg. 145
8. The Journalism of Imperialism: The Russo-Japanese War, pg. 168
9. Russian Newspapers in Revolution, 1905-1907, pg. 198
10. The Newspaper Between Revolution and War, 1907-1914, pg. 223
11. The Newspaper in World War and Revolution, 1914-1917, pg. 253
Conclusion, pg. 282
Appendix A. Numbers, Circulations, and Street Sales of Newspapers, pg. 293
Appendix B. Statistics on Punishment by the Censorship, pg. 300
Appendix C. Content Analyses of Major Newspapers, pg. 305
Index, pg. 311