The News under Russia's Old Regime : : The Development of a Mass-Circulation Press / / Louise McReynolds.

In this lively account of the rise of a commercial newspaper industry in imperial Russia, Louise McReynolds explores how the mass-circulation press created a forum for popular opinion advocating political change. From the Great Reforms of Tsar Alexander II in 1855 to the Bolsheviks' shut-down o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1991
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1219
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and Tables
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Origins of the Mass-Circulation Press
  • 2. The Transition to Commercial Independence, 1863-1876
  • 3. The Newspaper from the Boulevard, 1864-1876
  • 4. The News Shapes the Medium: War and Assassination, 1876-1881
  • 5. The Newspaper in Battle with the "Thick" Journal: Commercialization and Objectivity in the 1880s
  • 6. The Grounding of a Public Institution in the 1890s
  • 7. The Newspaper Reporter
  • 8. The Journalism of Imperialism: The Russo-Japanese War
  • 9. Russian Newspapers in Revolution, 1905-1907
  • 10. The Newspaper Between Revolution and War, 1907-1914
  • 11. The Newspaper in World War and Revolution, 1914-1917
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Numbers, Circulations, and Street Sales of Newspapers
  • Appendix B. Statistics on Punishment by the Censorship
  • Appendix C. Content Analyses of Major Newspapers
  • Index