Under the Radar Tracking Western Radio Listeners in the Soviet Union

Western democracy is currently under attack by a resurgent Russia, weaponizing new technologies and social media. How to respond? During the Cold War, the West fought off similar Soviet propaganda assaults with shortwave radio broadcasts. Founded in 1949, the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Libert...

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Otros Autores: Parta, R. Eugene, 1940-, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest : Central European University Press 2022
2022.
Edición:1st edition
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  • Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Prelude: My Road to Radio Liberty (amabile)First Movement (1965-1970): Early Years of Audience Research (andante)Second Movement (1970-1980): First Steps in Audience Interviewing (accelerato)Photo section. Third Movement (1981-1985): Audience Research Breaks New Ground (sforzando)Fourth Movement (1986-1990): Perestroika Changes the Game (fuocoso) Fifth Movement (1991-1994): The Post-Soviet Transition (vittorioso, capriccioso, lamentoso)Postlude: Past Successes and the Road Ahead (coda)Appendix 1: Charts and Graphs referenced in textAppendix 2: Vignettes: Max Ralis, Helmut Aigner, Christopher Geleklidis, Steen Sauerberg, Andrei Nazarov, Ivan Myhul, Viktor Nekrasov, Andrei Sinyavsky, Aleksandr Galich, Victor Grayevsky, Vladimir Shlapentokh, Boris Grushin, Yuri Levada, Irina Alberti Appendix 3: Methodologies. MIT Simulation. Contribution of Ithiel de Sola Poo lAppendix 4: Excerpts from Questionnaires, BALEs, BGRs Appendix 5: Subsequent careers of SAAOR/MOR Staffers Bibliography Index