(Interviews with Central Asian Afgantsy – participants in the Soviet-Afghan war, 1979-1989)
Под редакцией Марлен Ларюэль, Ботагоз Ракишевой
(Marlene Laruelle, Botagoz Rakisheva, eds)
(Interviews with Central Asian Afgantsy – participants in the Soviet-Afghan war, 1979-1989)
Под редакцией Марлен Ларюэль, Ботагоз Ракишевой
(Marlene Laruelle, Botagoz Rakisheva, eds)
Nikolai Starodymov, Master-klass Afganskoi voiny. V boiu vse odnoi krovi, Iauza, 2013.
Issue 16 – Spring 2014 (Military Journalism in Russia and the CIS)
SIXTEENTH ISSUE – “Military Journalism in Russia and the CIS ”
In the sociology of media, the question of military journalism occupies a special place as one carrying significant political and institutional-specific implications. This is particularly obvious in the case of the USSR, where censorship, ideological challenges related to conflicts, and inaccessibility of the army have hindered attempts to gain knowledge of the production process regarding news and information surrounding the military. Since the fall of the USSR, Russian media space has experienced an opening and a liberalization applicable to military journalism. The old Soviet army newspapers have continued to exist (Krasnaia Zvezda, for example) while civil titles dedicated to military topics have appeared (for instance, the military supplement Nezavisimoe Voennoe Obozrenie of the daily newspaper Nezavisimaia Gazeta). At the same time, new independent media have gravitated toward military topics, fed by specialized civil correspondents. Continue reading
Akademiia Voenno-Istorichekikh Nauk, Ot Soldata do Generala. Vospominaniia o Voine, 15 Volumes, 2003-2012.
HUNDREDS OF STORIES OF SOLDIERS TO GENERALS ON WWII & AFGHANISTAN Continue reading
Artemy M. Kalinovsky, A Long Goodbye. The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Harvard University Press, 2011, 320 pages. Continue reading