Closer to the Masses

Stalinist Culture, Social Revolution, and Soviet Newspapers

Matthew Lenoe

    Introduction

    I. Soviet Newspapers in the 1920s

    1. Agitation, Propaganda, and the NEP Mass Enlightenment Project

    2. Newspaper Distribution and the Emergence of Soviet Information Rationing

    3. Reader Response and Its Impact on the Press

    II. The Creation of Mass Journalism and Socialist Realism

    4. The Creation of Mass Journalism

    5. Mass Journalists, "Cultural Revolution," and the Retargeting of Soviet Newspapers

    6. The Central Committee and Self-Criticism, 1928-1929

    7. Mass Journalism, "Soviet Sensations," and Socialist Realism

    Conclusion

    Appendix: Notes to Tables

    Archival Sources

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: Closer to the Masses

Matthew Lenoe is Associate Professor of History at the University of Rochester.