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Through historical analysis of institutions and media—from information “criminals” and censorship to the KGB, press restoration of history, television, and pop culture—the book explains how information flows undermined the Leninist model. It culminates in an account of the post-crisis period, including the coup-proof society.","Dismantlingw        T4on⁰Λ  \n# NFORMATIONENDEDTHE\n\nSOVIETUNIONScott  \nShane  \n“Shane writeswith such bracingauthority,suchstartling insight,that DismantlingUtopia must beregarded as oneof the essentialworks on the fallof the SovietUnion.”  \n—JonathanKirsch,LosAngeles Times  \n# Dismantling Utopia\n\n2deswigner1ers590  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/dismantlingutopi0000shan_s208  \nDismantlingUtopia  \nW  \n# HOW INFORMATION ENDEDTHE SOVIET UNION\n\nSCOTT SHANE  \n象  \nElephant Paperbacks  \nIVAN R.DEE,PUBLISHER,CHICAGO  \nDISMANTLING UTOPIA.Copyright ◎1994 by Scott Shane.This bookwas first published in 1994 by Ivan R.Dee  \nFirst ELEPHANT PAPERBACK edition published 1995 by Ivan R.Dee,Inc.,I332 North Halsted Street,Chicago 60622.Manufactured in the UnitedStates of America and printed on acid-free paper.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:  \nShane,Scott,I954-  \nDismantling utopia :how information ended the Soviet Union /Scott Shane.  \nP.cm.  \nReprint.Originally published:Chicago:Ivan R.Dee,I994.  \n“Elephant paperbacks.”  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN I-56663-099-1 (alk.paper)  \n1.Communication policy--Soviet Union.2.Soviet Union—Politics and  \ngovernment—I985-1991.I.Title.  \n[P95.82.S65S5 I995]  \n302.2'0947'09048—dc20  \nTo Francie  \nContents  \nIntroduction3  \nI.Before:Information Criminal9  \n2.Information Control and the Soviet Crisis43  \n3.What Price Socialism?An Economy Without Information 75  \n4.The KGB,Father of Perestroika 99  \n5.The Press and the Restoration of HistoryI2I  \n6.Television and the Revival of PoliticsI45  \n7.A Normal Country:The Pop Culture Explosion  \nI82  \n8.Letting Go of the Leninist Faith212  \n9.After:The Coup-Proof Society  \n245  \nEpilogue 276  \nAcknowledgments29I  \nNotes  \n293  \nIndex  \n305  \nInformation in the Soviet Union:A Prophecy  \n\"Ah,my dear comrades,\"Madyarov said suddenly,\"can youimagine what it's like to have freedom of the press?One quietmorning after the war you open your newspaper,and instead ofexultant editorials,instead of a letter addressed by some workers tothe great Stalin,instead of articles about a brigade of steelworkerswho have done an extra day's work in honor of the elections to theSupreme Soviet,instead of stories about workers in the United Stateswho are beginning the New Year in a state of despondency,poverty,and growing unemployment,guess what you find in the newspaper!Information!Can you imagine a newspaper like that?A newspaperthat provides information!  \n\"And so,you start to read:crop failure in Kursk region,aninspection report on conditions in Butyrsky Prison,a debate onwhether the White Sea-Baltic Canal is really necessary;you readabout how the worker Golopyzov opposes the issuance of new bonds  \n\"In general,you know everything that's happening in the country:good harvests,and crop failures;enthusiasm,and breaking-and-entering;the opening of new mines,and mine disasters;the disputes betweenMolotov and Malenkov.You read reports on the course of a strikeset off when a factory director fired a 70-year-old chemist;you readthe speeches of Churchill and Bloom,and not that they 'stated thatallegedly…’;you read reports of the debates in the House ofCommons;you know how many people committed suicide yesterday","cbCaimsfgRcBywGe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimsfgRcBywGe","pdf",20014817,3,1,340,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n# Before: Information Criminal\n# Information Control and the Soviet Crisis\n# What Price Socialism? 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