Television and Presidential Power in Putin's Russia
- ISBN-10
- 1136857559
- ISBN-13
- 9781136857553
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-12-14
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Tina Burrett
Description
As a new president takes power in Russia, this book provides an analysis of the changing relationship between control of Russian television media and presidential power during the tenure of President Vladimir Putin. It argues that the conflicts within Russia’s political and economic elites, and President Putin’s attempts to rebuild the Russian state after its fragmentation during the Yeltsin administration, are the most significant causes of changes in Russian media. Tina Burrett demonstrates that President Putin sought to increase state control over television as part of a larger programme aimed at strengthening the power of the state and the position of the presidency at its apex, and that such control over the media was instrumental to the success of the president’s wider systemic changes that have redefined the Russian polity. The book also highlights the ways in which oligarchic media owners in Russia used television for their own political purposes, and that media manipulation was not the exclusive preserve of the Kremlin, but a common pattern of behaviour in elite struggles in the post-Soviet era. Basing its analysis predominately on interviews with key players in the Moscow media and political elites, and on secondary sources drawn from the Russian and Western media, the book examines broad themes that have been the subject of constant media interest, and have relevance beyond the confines of Russian politics.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote control
By Stephen Hutchings, Natalia RulyovaThis book examines television culture in Russia under the government of Vladimir Putin.
-
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia
By Timothy FryeWeak Strongman challenges the conventional wisdom about Putin's Russia, highlighting the difficult trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues ranging from election fraud and repression to propaganda and foreign policy.
-
Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia
By Tina Burrett51 Federalism and Local Politics in Russia Edited by Cameron Ross and Adrian Campbell 52 Transitional Justice in ... Bargaining in Russia, 1990–93 Information and uncertainty Edward Morgan-Jones 65 Building Big Business in Russia The ...
-
The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals
By Stephen Hutchings, Birgit Beumers, Natalia RulyovaThis book explores developments in the Russian mass media since the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
-
The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia
By Daniel TreismanThe New Autocracy brings together top Russian experts and Western political scholars who explore the complex roles of Russia’s presidency, security services, parliament, media, and other actors.
-
Inside Putin's Russia: Can There Be Reform without Democracy?
By Andrew JackWritten by Andrew Jack, the Moscow Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, here is a revealing look at the meteoric rise of Vladimir Putin and his first term as president of Russia.
-
Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution
By Peter Baker, Susan GlasserSee for example data collected during the Putin era by U.S. scholars Sarah E. Mendelson and Theodore P. Gerber. Mendelson concluded, “Russia today looks to be composed of roughly one-third democrats, one-third autocrats, and onethird ...
-
Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain
By Dale Roy HerspringPutin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain
-
Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia
By Marshall I. GoldmanMarshall Goldman tells this story with panache, as only one of the world's leading authorities on Russia could.