Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union Shane ScottPaperback
Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union Shane ScottPaperback By the 1980s the Soviet Union had matched the United States in military might and far surpassed it in the production of…
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Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union Shane ScottPaperback
By the 1980s the Soviet Union had matched the United States in military might and far surpassed it in the production of steel, timber, concrete, and oil. Heirs to an old Russian tradition of censorship, they had banned photocopiers, prohibited accurate maps, and controlled word-for-word even the scripts of stand-up comedians. But the electronic whirlwind that was transforming the global economy had been locked out by communist leaders.
As newspapers, television, books, films, and videotapes flooded the country with information about the Stalinist past, the communist present, and life in the rest of the world, the Soviet system was driven to ruin. In this compellingly readable firsthand account, filled with memorable characters, revealing vignettes, and striking statistics, Scott Shane tells the story of Mikhail Gorbachev's attempt to "renew socialism" by easing information controls.
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