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  Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Soviet Union became the primary model for future Communist states during the Cold War; the government and the political organization of the country were defined by the only permitted political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian (colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties.
The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of the European continent and the northern portion of the Asian continent.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soviet   (6735 words)

  
 Television in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Television in the Soviet Union, like all other media, was owned by the state and was under its tight control and censorship.
As a result, the Soviet television system, while similar to the Soviet radio system, was a combination of ingenunity to overcome the problems mentioned in the prior section as well as transmitting programming to the Communist world.
The Soviet Union's television news was provided almost entirely by the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, commonly known as TASS.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soviet_television   (1216 words)

  
 kostya
There are about 20 works published in the Soviet Union dealing with the problems of mass media and their effects on voters, and in nearly all of them it is stated that, in a situation of a one-party system and multi-candidate elections, the media play a major role in determining the voters' preferences.
Television plays a role in broadening the sense of group identity and establishing the reference norms and the standards of the social group with which the person identifies.
According to this theory the television coverage of the miners' strike was necessarily unablanced because it was dealing with the fact of public disobedience against a basic principle of political culture: that the authorities' decisions should only be opposed by peaceful methods, to keep the political system stable.
lucy.ukc.ac.uk /csacpub/russian/kostya.html   (2358 words)

  
 Finnish Views of CNN -- Chapter 2
However, both Soviet television and YLE voice-overs are usually read by the studio anchor and not a field reporter.
Television writers and producers strive to impersonate a real conversational style in order to give us, the television audience, the impression that we are actually witnessing a particular event.
In the United States, where commercial television dominates the format of news broadcasts, textbooks used in college-level writing courses for the broadcast media are produced with the needs of commercial television in mind.
members.tripod.com /Brett_Dellinger/C2.htm   (3795 words)

  
 Television - Uncyclopedia
Television (or TV) was originally a device used by infants in the developed world for looking at breasts, a rĂ´le undertaken in earlier decades by National Geographic magazine.
Parents often use Television as a means of delivering material unpopular with the FCC to their children.
Television was also solely invented by John Logie Baird, Vladimir Zworykin, Herbert Cecil Booth and Thomas Crapper, depending on whom you ask, what they had for lunch that day, and the number of Trabants manufactured in East Germany from July 1980 to August 1982, multiplied by the precise length of Spock's ears in series 2.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Television   (1030 words)

  
 KinoKultura
The Soviet spy film of the 1960s did not follow the Bond formula in another significant way: instead of having every episode be a self-contained narrative, Soviet spy films consisted of several episodes and ended with a strong closure—the Soviet agent returning back to his community.
While Soviet cinema of the 1960s made mega-profits on the domestic market and adjusted the length and content of films to the new values and the commercial needs of the increasing size and number of screening facilities, Soviet television emerged as a new medium that did not promise any profits and demanded huge investments.
Television’s primary function, as Ellen Mickiewicz reminds us, was education: “The primary mission of the media system in the Soviet Union is the socialization of the person receiving the message.
www.kinokultura.com /2006/12-prokhorov.shtml   (3968 words)

  
 TELEVISION REVIEW; Soviet Struggle to Build the Bomb - New York Times
Several former Soviet atomic physicists and spies tell in the three-hour documentary that begins tonight on the Discovery Channel how they went about collecting secrets from the West and building their country's first atomic bomb.
But there is a benign account of Soviet intelligence's connection with Niels Bohr, the Danish nuclear physicist who a former Soviet agent recently said had passed information to the Russians.
The Soviet physicist who actually met with Bohr says all he obtained from the Danish theoretician, who was known to favor the internationalization of information about nuclear weaponry, was a book that had been openly published in the West.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E4D8173BF931A2575AC0A962958260   (398 words)

  
 "Soviet Saucers" by James Oberg
The extraordinary tales, described on Soviet television, reported in Soviet newspapers, and analyzed in a private nationwide UFO study group soon took on a life of their own.
According to Soviet UFO enthusiast Felix Zigel, who compiled such accounts, the plane's engines died and did not start up again until after the UFO had disappeared, when the aircraft was only a half mile high in the air.
Private UFO groups were banned by the Soviet government, and the subject was dropped from the controlled media even as it spread wildly in the samizdat, the underground Russian press.
www.debunker.com /texts/soviet.html   (2673 words)

  
 1 11-28-88 05:10 pes Soviet TV: glasnost means comedy, drama, rock UPI Arts + Entertainmen
There are the plain facts of Soviet television: it is run under the auspices of Gostelradio, the USSR State Committee for Television and Radio.
That Soviet television has loosened up enormously is illustrated in various ways, but none so dramatically as the way two events were handled.
One was the 1,000th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church, celebrated on television in a show titled "Millenium." It includes the patriarch of the church celebrating its anniversary _ official Soviet television bringing religion into the homes of its people.
www.skepticfiles.org /krish/soviettv.htm   (805 words)

  
 The U.S. Naval Academy Collection of Soviet & Russian TV: Guides & Finding Aids (Motion Picture and Television ...
The Soviet television schedule is highly irregular compared to that of the United States.
Na sessii Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR (At a Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR) Live recording of and commentary on a session of the Supreme Soviet.
The Soviet Television Card Catalog documents approximately two years of videotapes and is explained in further detail on page 22.
www.loc.gov /rr/mopic/findaid/soviettv.html   (6130 words)

  
 The Boston Globe Magazine
Overcoming a variety of technical and legal challenges, Schaffer, who is 39, developed a system to bring live Soviet television to the United States in the early 1980s.
Although Western satellites hover over a single point on the Earth's surface (making their signals easy to follow), the Soviet Molniya, which he had picked up, was one of four satellites moving in a north-south orbit around the planet To track the signal, he had to move his dish by hand every three minutes.
In the process, Schaffer discovered that Soviet television "may be boring, it may not be good television, but watching it is an eye opener.
www.nutcom.com /bostonglobe.html   (2074 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Anniversary of Soviet Mission Marks Historic Release of Proton Footage
At the time, the powerful standard booster had been in operation in the Soviet space fleet for almost two decades, playing a crucial role in the fruitless Soviet effort to put a man in orbit around the moon, as well as for numerous planetary missions to Venus and Mars.
Prior to the Vega launch, the general public outside the Soviet space industry had only glimpsed the mysterious vehicle, shown with its crucial parts cropped off in a grainy documentary released by Soviet authorities to the public.
By broadcasting the Proton launch on television, the Soviets championed the openness of their space program at the time.
www.space.com /news/vega_anniversary_991216.html   (752 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Afghanistan -- War Withour End?
One reason is that the Soviet commitment and casualties have grown too large for the government to conceal from the people.
JIM LEHRER: The Soviet coverage is increasingly accompanied by commentary that compares the fighting with the World War II patriotic resistance to the Nazis.
The Soviets, for example, use mines which are disguised as toys, which children pick up, doing great damage to the children and great harm to the people.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/afghan_12-27-85.html   (1970 words)

  
 The Partnership - ch10-9
NASA and the Soviet Academy had to arrange to convert the signals so they would be compatible with each other's system at the Raistings television ground station operated by the Postal Department of the Federal Republic of Germany.
With little protest from NASA officials, the Soviets have all but killed any prospects for U.S. or other Western press representatives to be present at Tyuratam during the Soyuz launch or at the Kalinin control center during the flight.
Lunney to Lee, memo, "ASTP Television," 18 Sept. 1973; Lee to Shafer, memo, "Television Coverage During the ASTP Mission," 25 Oct. 1973; and Shafer to Lee, memo, "ASTP Television Coverage," 2 Nov. 1973.
www.hq.nasa.gov /pao/History/SP-4209/ch10-9.htm   (2115 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Inside story: Soviet media on the coup
Moscow awoke on 19 August 1991 to the announcement that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had transferred power to his vice-president and that a six-month state of emergency had come into effect.
Central Television broadcast the same programmes on channels 1 and 2.
Soviet television and radio either broadcast official statements or classical music.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1492772.stm   (830 words)

  
 TV REVIEW; U.S. AND SOVIET JOURNALISM EXPLORED - New York Times
In answer, Tengiz Sulkhanishvili, a Soviet television correspondent in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian republic of the Soviet Union, blows a kiss.
Soviet journalists, when they appear on American television, are usually more adroit than that.
Of course Soviet reporters can investigate officials, he says; his weekly newspaper investigated the Mayor of Sochi.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4DC1638F934A35754C0A961948260   (560 words)

  
 Phobos 2 Soviet Space Probe Mystery - Was the Phobos 2 Destroyed by a UFO?
Joseph Shklovskii noted member of the Soviet Academy of science and co-writer with Dr Carl Sagan of 'Intelligent life in the unverse', once calculated from the estimated density of the Martian atmosphere and the peculiar "acceleration" of Phobos, that the satellite must be hollow.
The television clip was shown by some TV stations in Europe and Canada as part of weekly 'diary' programs, as a curiosity and not as a hot news item.
Seem on the surface of Mars was a clearly defined dark shape that could indeed be described, as it was in he initial dispatch from Moscow,, as a "thin ellipse" (this photo is a still from the Soviet television clip).
www.informantnews.com /phobos/index.html   (2450 words)

  
 Soviet Television News Crew Visits Evangelical Church
Leading Soviet journalist Svetlana Staradomskya recently spent two weeks in the St. Paul/Minneapolis area filming scenes of American life to use in her Soviet news broadcasts, which have an estimated national audience of twenty million people.
Staradomskya and her film crew travelled to a public school, a shopping mall, a nursing home and even a professional football game, but it was the two hours spent among believers at Grace Church in Edina, that proved to be the emotional high point of her trip.
In parting comments before returning to the Soviet Union, Staradomskya mentioned to Diana Pierce that of all her reports, it was her report of her visit to the church that she would treasure the most.
www.forerunner.com /forerunner/X0703_Soviet_news_visits_c.html   (1002 words)

  
 Interview With Soviet Television Journalists Valentin Zorin and Boris Kalyagin
President Reagan is receiving us in order to give an interview for Soviet television.
Now, as I say, I can't recall all of the sources from which I gleaned this, and maybe some things have been interpreted differently as in modern versions, but I know that Lenin expounded on that and said that that must be the goal.
But I also know -- and this didn't require reading Lenin -- that every leader, every General Secretary but the present one had, in appearances before the Soviet Congress, reiterated their allegiance to that Marxian theory that the goal was a one-world Communist state.
www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1988/052088j.htm   (3612 words)

  
 Kremlin sponsors `New Age' kookery by Mark Burdman On Oct. 11, the Soviet Foreign Ministry
In part, this is an empire's classic reflex in a time of crisis, to provide a combination of cults and ``bread and circus'' forms of bizarre entertainment, to distract the masses from the misery of their lives.
The greater danger in the Soviet case, is that the transformations occur in a Russian culture that is far more irrational to begin with, than was German culture earlier in this century.
Official co-sponsors on the Soviet side include the Supreme Soviet, the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and the Interfaith Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity.
www.skepticfiles.org /rumor/mosc_occ.htm   (1073 words)

  
 Russo-Soviet Television and Video, Comics and Internet Page to Russian and Soviet Cinema Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
: The Role of Television Coverage in Russia's August 1991 Coup."
Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-century Russia.
"May the [Police] Force Be with You: The Television Adaptations of Alexandra Marinina's Detective Novels (With Special Reference to The Coincidence of Circumstances)."
www.pitt.edu /~slavic/video/television.html   (199 words)

  
 AIM Report - September A, 1986
Soviet journalists such as Posner are employees of the state.
Since Soviet journalists like Nikolai Setounski of the TASS bureau in New York either refuse or are not permitted to investigate such cases of high-level deception, the Soviet authorities can rest assured that they will never be exposed, at least in the Soviet Union.
His letter explained that the Soviets go to enormous expense to control their borders because they don't want to lose their "best and brightest." He says Vladimir Feltsman, the flballed pianist who wants to leave, says virtually no one would leave if the borders were open.
www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1986/09a.html   (4430 words)

  
 TV Interview for Soviet Television | Margaret Thatcher Foundation
Simonov/Kalyagin/Kolesnichenko, Soviet TV The thing is that there is a possibility of an accidental outbreak of a nuclear conflict.
Simonov/Kalyagin/Kolesnichenko, Soviet TV I think that your parallel with conventional weapons cannot be substantiated, because when we speak of nuclear weapons we speak practically of a nuclear suicide even of that side that would try to make use of its nuclear forces.
The Soviet Union has a very good anti-ballistic missile defence system around Moscow, it has recently updated it, it has had twenty years experience of tackling incoming, the theory of tackling incoming missiles, from missiles fired from the ground; more experience than anyone else.
www.margaretthatcher.org /speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=106604   (5432 words)

  
 AIM Report - November B, 1986
In exchange, the Soviets would be allowed to receive and use CNN for their own purposes.
Gosteleradio, like all other Soviet media, is owned by the state and its "news" is defined as that which serves the interests of the ruling Soviet Communist Party.
Funderburk noted that Soviet troops have, in fact, crossed Rumanian soil, that Rumania votes with the Soviet Union at the United Nations, and that evidence sup- plied by a Rumanian defector, Ion Mihai Pacepa, has implicated Rumania in a scheme to smuggle high-technology goods out of the West into the Soviet Union.
www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1986/11b.html   (4266 words)

  
 In Soviet Russia
When the Soviet Bloc fell, it was very important to the developing democratic identity to reject past popular oppression, and as such, it became obvious that the jokes were told of Soviet Russia, as opposed to Democratic Russia, which for various reasons needed to be popularly seen as a separate entity.
The Americans refused to call the Soviet Union as the Soviet Union when it was formed but called it Russia.
During the time of communist regime in the Soviet Union the Americans mistakenly called all people coming from the Soviet Union as Russians when in fact the Soviet Union didn't destroy the notion of nationality.
c2.com /cgi/wiki?InSovietRussia   (1425 words)

  
 Soviet Saucers (skeptical) - UFO Evidence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Summary: It was the fall of 1967, and the Soviet Union was in the grip of its first major UFO flap.
In one detailed account, an airliner crew from Voroshilovgrad to Volgograd, flight 104, insisted that a UFO had hovered and then maneuvered around their plane.
At a UFO conference in Albuquerque in 1992, Azhazha told astonished Western colleagues that he had proof that 5,000 Russians had been abducted by UFOs and never returned to Earth.
www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc1527.htm   (2877 words)

  
 Television program links Soviet, area youth
This program, "Telebridges to the Soviets," uses a two-way international satellite so groups of students in the WPSX station can see and talk with Soviet students in Moscow.
The idea was conceived last fall when a Soviet physicist, Vladimir V. Fridkin, visited the area on invitation from the University Center for Materials Research, Froke said.
Vladimir Korovin, editor in chief of programming for Soviet Television in the Moscow Region, proposed the first teleconference on the topic of science, Froke said.
www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1991/09/09-10-91tdc/09-10-91darts-06.asp   (465 words)

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