Just weeks after the end of the Second World War, He was a Soviet cipher clerk stationed at the Soviet Union’s embassy in Ottawa. In February 1946, the Canadian government revealed that it had given political asylum to Igor Gouzenko. This situation led former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill to state on 5 Marchġ946 that an “iron curtain” had fallen across the European continent. This was done without due democratic process. Kept local communist parties in power as puppet governments in once-independent countries across Eastern Europe. American and British diplomatic relations with Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union severely cooled after the war, over several issues. They were deeply suspicious of the other side’s world plans. The Allies were alreadyĭivided ideologically. The Cold War was rooted in the collapse of the American-British-Soviet alliance that defeated Germany and Japan in the Second World War. Christine E.An S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile (SAM) in front of the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps in St. Kirsten Bönker’s incisive and original account demonstrates decisively that the experience of watching Soviet TV was not reducible to the black and white of conformity and dissent, and that the emotional ties Soviet TV fostered continue to shape post-Soviet Russian cultural and political life. We learn what it was like to bring home a first television set, arrange your home and daily routines around it, and experience the powerful feelings and identifications this new medium evoked.
Her nuanced and deeply researched account challenges common assumptions about Soviet television, revealing it to have been-at least partially-a success story.īased on extraordinary research in the Soviet archives and on extensive interviews with Soviet television viewers themselves, this rich and compelling book lets us get to know Soviet television through the voices of Soviet people. By focusing on the viewer experience, Kirsten Bönker fills an important gap in our understanding of the late Soviet public sphere and sheds interesting light on the relationship between authoritative discourse and popular mentalities.
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