Closer to the Masses ISBN: 9780674040083 Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Harvard University Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the late 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a dramatic story of purges, political intrigues, and social upheaval.