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The News under Russia's Old Regime: The Development of a Mass-Circulation Press
By (Author) Louise McReynolds
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
077
Paperback
328
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
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 of the newspapers in 1917, she chronicles the exploits o