News under Russia's Old Regime
In this lively account of the rise of a commercial newspaper industry in imperial Russia, Louise McReynolds explores how the mass-circulation press created a forum for popular opinion advocating political change. From the Great Reforms of Tsar Alexander II in 1855 to the Bolsheviks'' shut-down of the newspapers in 1917, she chronicles the exploits of publishers and editors, writers and readers. Ar...
In this lively account of the rise of a commercial newspaper industry in imperial Russia, Louise McReynolds explores how the mass-circulation press created a forum for popular opinion advocating political change. From the Great Reforms of Tsar Alexander II in 1855 to the Bolsheviks'' shut-down of the newspapers in 1917, she chronicles the exploits of publishers and editors, writers and readers. Ar...
