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Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television, written by Christine E. Evans

Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television, written by Christine E. Evans (New Haven, ct: Yale University Press, 2016), 360 pp., $85.00 (hb), isbn 9780300208436.When China’s President, Xi Jinping, shut down a television show about children of celebrities, millions of viewers were lost, as were sizeable revenues from advertising destined for the government’s coffers. The show had failed to promote official socialist values and behavior. Xi had thus resolved with a stroke the tension between satisfying audience preferences and projection of ideology. The same dilemma dogged Soviet television: the push of ideological control versus the pull of audience interest and engagement never was or could be solved, but Christine E. Evans, in her book Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television, reveals the fascinating interactivity beneath the surface of entertainment shows inviting a measure of audience participation and implicitly legitimizing multiple constructions, until time-after-time censorship was invoked to cancel or alter the play of dynamics.Evans focuses mainly on particularly popular non-news television shows by genre, basing her analysis on published research, archival material including tapes of programs and meetings of program creators (the latter, particularly interesting), Soviet newspapers of the period, memoirs, and interviews. She devotes a chapter to the evening news, but it focuses on high-level decision makers; http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Soviet and Post Soviet Review Brill

Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television, written by Christine E. Evans

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Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1075-1262
eISSN
1876-3324
DOI
10.1163/18763324-20171280
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(New Haven, ct: Yale University Press, 2016), 360 pp., $85.00 (hb), isbn 9780300208436.When China’s President, Xi Jinping, shut down a television show about children of celebrities, millions of viewers were lost, as were sizeable revenues from advertising destined for the government’s coffers. The show had failed to promote official socialist values and behavior. Xi had thus resolved with a stroke the tension between satisfying audience preferences and projection of ideology. The same dilemma dogged Soviet television: the push of ideological control versus the pull of audience interest and engagement never was or could be solved, but Christine E. Evans, in her book Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television, reveals the fascinating interactivity beneath the surface of entertainment shows inviting a measure of audience participation and implicitly legitimizing multiple constructions, until time-after-time censorship was invoked to cancel or alter the play of dynamics.Evans focuses mainly on particularly popular non-news television shows by genre, basing her analysis on published research, archival material including tapes of programs and meetings of program creators (the latter, particularly interesting), Soviet newspapers of the period, memoirs, and interviews. She devotes a chapter to the evening news, but it focuses on high-level decision makers;

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The Soviet and Post Soviet ReviewBrill

Published: Jul 5, 2017

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