Changing channels

television and the struggle for power in Russia

by Ellen Propper Mickiewicz

1999 382 pages eng

"Covering the period from the state-controlled television broadcasts at the end of the Soviet Union through the attempted coup against Gorbachev, the war in Chechnya, the presidential election of 1990, and the economic collapse of 1998, Mickiewicz draws on firsthand research, public opinion surveys,…