Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television
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Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalization and associated international trends are disrupting and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to inter-ethnic cohe- sion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television’s role here has been reinforced, rather than diminished, by the rise of new media technologies. Through an analysis of a wide range of news and other television programmes, the book shows how the covert meanings of discourse on a particular issue can diverge from the overt significance attributed to it, just as the impact of that dis- course may not conform with the original aims of the broadcasters. The book discusses the tension between the imperative to maintain security through cen- tralized government and overall national cohesion that Russia shares with other European states, and the need to remain sensitive to, and to accommodate, the needs and perspectives of ethnic minorities and labour migrants. It compares the increasingly isolationist popular ethno-nationalism in Russia, which harks back to ‘old-fashioned’ values, with the similar rise of the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party in Britain. Throughout, this extremely rich, well-argued book complicates and challenges received wisdom on Russia’s recent descent into authoritarianism. It points to a regime struggling to negotiate the dilemmas it faces, given its Soviet legacy of ethnic particularism, weak civil society, large native Muslim population and over- bearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media. Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. Vera Tolz is Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies Series Editor: Richard Sakwa, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent Editorial Committee: Roy Allison, St Antony’s College, Oxford Birgit Beumers, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Aberystwyth Richard Connolly, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham Terry Cox, Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow Peter Duncan, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London Zoe Knox, School of History, University of Leicester Rosalind Marsh, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath David Moon, Department of History, University of York Hilary Pilkington, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester Graham Timmins, Department of Politics, University of Birmingham Stephen White, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow Founding Editorial Committee Member: George Blazyca, Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Paisley This series is published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies). The series comprises original, high-quality, research- level work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet and East European Studies in humanities and social science subjects. 1 Ukraine’s Foreign and Security 12 Small-Town Russia Policy, 1991–2000 Postcommunist livelihoods Roman Wolczuk and identities: a portrait of the Intelligentsia in Achit, 2 Political Parties in the Bednodemyanovsk and Russian Regions Zubtsov, 1999–2000 Derek S. Hutcheson Anne White 3 Local Communities and Post- 13 Russian Society and the Communist Transformation Orthodox Church Edited by Simon Smith Religion in Russia after Communism 4 Repression and Resistance in Zoe Knox Communist Europe 14 Russian Literary Culture in J.C. Sharman the Camera Age The word as image 5 Political Elites and the Stephen Hutchings New Russia Anton Steen 15 Between Stalin and Hitler Class war and race war on the 6 Dostoevsky and the Idea of Dvina, 1940–46 Russianness Geoffrey Swain Sarah Hudspith 16 Literature in Post-Communist 7 Performing Russia – Folk Russia and Eastern Europe Revival and Russian Identity The Russian, Czech and Slovak Laura J. Olson fiction of the changes, 1988–98 Rajendra A. Chitnis 8 Russian Transformations Edited by Leo McCann 17 The Legacy of Soviet Dissent Dissidents, democratisation and 9 Soviet Music and Society under radical nationalism in Russia Lenin and Stalin Robert Horvath The baton and sickle 18 Russian and Soviet Film Edited by Neil Edmunds Adaptations of Literature, 1900–2001 10 State Building in Ukraine Screening the word The Ukranian parliament, Edited by Stephen Hutchings and 1990–2003 Anat Vernitski Sarah Whitmore 19 Russia as a Great Power 11 Defending Human Rights in Dimensions of security under Russia Putin Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and Edited by Jakob Hedenskog, Human Rights Commissioner, Vilhelm Konnander, Bertil 1969–2003 Nygren, Ingmar Oldberg and Emma Gilligan Christer Pursiainen 20 Katyn and the Soviet Massacre 30 The Transformation of Urban of 1940 Space in Post-Soviet Russia Truth, justice and memory Konstantin Axenov, Isolde Brade George Sanford and Evgenij Bondarchuk 21 Conscience, Dissent and 31 Western Intellectuals and the Reform in Soviet Russia Soviet Union, 1920–40 Philip Boobbyer From Red Square to the Left Bank 22 The Limits of Russian Ludmila Stern Democratisation 32 The Germans of the Emergency powers and states Soviet Union of emergency Irina Mukhina Alexander N. Domrin 33 Re-constructing the Post-Soviet 23 The Dilemmas of Industrial Region Destalinisation The Donbas in transition A social and cultural history of Edited by Adam Swain reform in the Khrushchev era Edited by Polly Jones 34 Chechnya – Russia’s “War on Terror” 24 News Media and Power John Russell in Russia Olessia Koltsova 35 The New Right in the New Europe 25 Post-Soviet Civil Society Czech transformation and right- Democratization in Russia and wing politics, 1989–2006 Seán Hanley the Baltic States Anders Uhlin 36 Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe 26 The Collapse of Communist Edited by Alexander Wöll and Power in Poland Harald Wydra Jacqueline Hayden 37 Energy Dependency, Politics 27 Television, Democracy and and Corruption in the Former Elections in Russia Soviet Union Sarah Oates Russia’s power, Oligarchs’ profits and Ukraine’s missing 28 Russian Constitutionalism energy policy, 1995–2006 Historical and contemporary Margarita M. Balmaceda development Andrey N. Medushevsky 38 Peopling the Russian Periphery Borderland colonization in 29 Late Stalinist Russia Eurasian history Society between reconstruction Edited by Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and reinvention Abby Schrader and Willard Edited by Juliane Fürst Sunderland 39 Russian Legal Culture Before 48 Globalization and the State in and After Communism Central and Eastern Europe Criminal justice, politics and the The politics of foreign direct public sphere investment Frances Nethercott Jan Drahokoupil 40 Political and Social Thought in 49 Local Politics and Post-Communist Russia Democratisation in Russia Axel Kaehne Cameron Ross 41 The Demise of the Soviet 50 The Emancipation of the Serfs Communist Party in Russia Atsushi Ogushi Peace arbitrators and the development of civil society 42 Russian Policy towards China Roxanne Easley and Japan The El’tsin and Putin periods 51 Federalism and Local Politics Natasha Kuhrt in Russia Edited by Cameron Ross and 43 Soviet Karelia Adrian Campbell Politics, planning and terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1920–1939 52 Transitional Justice in Nick Baron Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union 44 Reinventing Poland Reckoning with the communist past Economic and political Edited by Lavinia Stan transformation and evolving national identity 53 The Post-Soviet Russian Media Edited by Martin Myant and Conflicting signals Terry Cox Edited by Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia 45 The Russian Revolution in Rulyova Retreat, 1920–24 Soviet workers and the new 54 Minority Rights in Central and communist elite Eastern Europe Simon Pirani Edited by Bernd Rechel 46 Democratisation and Gender in 55 Television and Culture in Contemporary Russia Putin’s Russia Suvi Salmenniemi Remote control Stephen Hutchings and 47 Narrating Post/Communism Natalia Rulyova Colonial discourse and Europe’s borderline civilization 56 The Making of Modern Nataša Kovačević Lithuania Tomas Balkelis 57 Soviet State and Society Under 66 Russia and Islam Nikita Khrushchev State, society and radicalism Melanie Ilic and Jeremy Smith Roland Dannreuther and Luke March 58 Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 67 Celebrity and Glamour in 1944–1950 Contemporary Russia Michael Fleming Shocking chic Edited by Helena Goscilo and 59 Democratic Elections in Vlad Strukov Poland, 1991–2007 Frances Millard 68 The Socialist Alternative to Bolshevik Russia 60 Critical Theory in Russia and The Socialist Revolutionary the West Party, 1917–1939 Alastair Renfrew and Elizabeth White Galin Tihanov 69 Learning to Labour in Post- 61 Promoting Democracy and Soviet Russia Human Rights in Russia Vocational youth in transition European organization and Charles Walker Russia’s socialization Sinikukka Saari 70 Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia 62 The Myth of the Russian Tina Burrett Intelligentsia Old intellectuals in the 71 Political Theory and new Russia Community Building in Inna Kochetkova Post-Soviet Russia Edited by Oleg