Table of contents
- → Volume Abstract: "Inventing the Post-Soviet Public Sphere: Media Culture of the Russian 1990s" by Maya Vinokour
- → Introduction. “From Perestroika and the ‘Wild’ 1990s to ‘Putin’s Russia’: A Multimedia History” by Maya Vinokour
- → Chapter 1. “The Sociological Turn: Public Opinion Polling and the Dream of an Open Society” by Bradley Gorski
- → Chapter 2. “The Disappearing Reader: The Disintegration of the Press-Reader Relationship in the Soviet/Post-Soviet Press, 1985-1995” by Courtney Doucette
- → Chapter 3. “Russian Media in the 1990s, Fully Disclosed: Gore, Tabloids, and Countercultural Nationalism” by Fabrizio Fenghi
- → Chapter 4. “The Rock-and-Roll State: Popular Music, Print Media, and Soviet Bureaucracy” by Rita Safariants
- → Chapter 5. “B.U.Kashkin: The Underground Seeking the Public in the 1990s” by Daniil Leiderman
- → Chapter 6. “Russia’s Gay (and Not-So-Gay) Nineties: Sexual and Gender-Expression Pluralism in the first post-Soviet Decade” by Thomas Keenan
- → Chapter 7. “The Revolution of the New Narod: Perestroika, GKChP, and the Televised Post-Soviet Subject at Vzgliad/ ViD” by Pavel Khazanov
- → Chapter 8. “Memory and Media in Post-Soviet Russia: The 1990s to the Present” by Maya Vinokour
Introduction. “From Perestroika and the ‘Wild’ 1990s to ‘Putin’s Russia’: A Multimedia History”
This introduction gives an overview of the volume's main themes and highlights common threads among the chapters that follow.