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This book traces the life of free speech in Russia from the final years of the Soviet Union to the present. It shows how long-cherished hopes for an open society in which people would speak freely and tell truth to power fared under Gorbachevs glasnost; how free speech was a real, if fractured, achievement of Yeltsins years in power; and how easy it was for Putin to reverse these newly won freedoms, imposing a patrimonial media that sits comfortably with old autocratic and feudal traditions. The book explores why this turn seemed so inexorable and now seems so entrenched. It examines the historical legacy, and Russias culturally ambivalent perception of freedom, which Dostoyevsky called that terrible gift. It evaluates the allure of western consumerism and Soviet-era illusions that stunted the initial promise of freedom and democracy. The behaviour of journalists and their apparent complicity in the distortion of their profession come under scrutiny. This ambitious study covering more than 30 years of radical change looks at responses from above and from below, and asks whether the players truly understood what was involved in the practice of free speech.

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This book traces the life of free speech in Russia from the final years of the Soviet Union to the present. It shows how longcherished hopes for an open society in which people would speak freely and tell truth to power fared under Gorbachevs glasnost; how free speech was a real, if fractured, achievement of Yeltsins years in power; and how easy it was for Putin to reverse these newly won freedoms, imposing a patrimonial media that sits comfortably with old autocratic and feudal traditions. The book explores why this turn seemed so inexorable and now seems so entrenched. It examines the historical legacy, and Russias culturally ambivalent perception of freedom, which Dostoyevsky called that terrible gift. It evaluates the allure of western consumerism and Soviet-era illusions that stunted the initial promise of freedom and democracy. The behaviour of journalists and their apparent complicity in the distortion of their profession come under scrutiny. This ambitious study covering more than 30 years of radical change looks at responses from above and from below, and asks whether the players truly understood what was involved in the practice of free speech.
Daphne Skillen has degrees from London, Sydney and Colorado universities. Her doctorate is from University College London. She has lived and worked in Moscow for many years as a journalist and as a consultant for international development agencies and donors. She has also worked in countries of the former Soviet Union besides Russia and in South-East Asia.
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Series editor: Richard Sakwa, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent
Editorial Committee: Roy Allison, St Antonys College, Oxford, Birgit Beumers, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Aberystwyth, Richard Connolly, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, Terry Cox, Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, Peter Duncan, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, Zoe Knox, School of History, University of Leicester, Rosalind Marsh, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, David Moon, Department of History, University of York, Hilary Pilkington, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, Graham Timmins, Department of Politics, University of Birmingham, Stephen White, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow
Founding Editorial Committee Member:
George Blazyca, Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Paisley
This series is published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies). The series comprises original, highquality, research-level work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet and East European Studies in humanities and social science subjects.
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Freedom of Speech in Russia
Politics and media from Gorbachev to Putin
Daphne Skillen
Freedom of Speech in Russia
Politics and media from Gorbachev to Putin
Daphne Skillen
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First published 2017
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2017 Daphne Skillen
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Skillen, Daphne, author.
Title: Freedom of speech in Russia : politics and media from Gorbachev to Putin / Daphne Skillen.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2017] | Series: Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 108
Identifiers: LCCN 2016022535| ISBN 9781138787667 (hbk) | ISBN 9781315766256 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Mass mediaPolitical aspectsSoviet Union. | Mass media Political aspectsRussia (Federation) | Freedom of speechSoviet Union. | Freedom of speechRussia (Federation) | Mass media policySoviet Union. | Mass media policyRussia (Federation) | Soviet UnionPolitics and government1945-1991. | Russia (Federation)Politics and government 1991-
Classification: LCC P95.82.S65 S55 2017 | DDC 302.230947084dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022535
ISBN: 978-1-138-78766-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-76625-6 (ebk)
To Tanya, Jack, Louis and Marcel
The breakup of the Soviet Union offered Russia an unprecedented opportunity to become an open society in which people could speak freely without fear of the consequences for almost the first time in its history. The freedom to speak, express opinions, publish this it would seem was the dream not of decades but of centuries. The censor, that soured eunuch prowling amongst the muses, was Pushkins description in 1822 of the enemy of free speech, who made writers lives a misery. When the barriers did finally come down in 1991, free speech was the first and most intoxicating part of the freedoms let loose in the rough and tumble of Yeltsins years in power. It seemed that the commitment to speak freely had finally taken hold of a once politically oppressed society. Yet Russia entered the twenty-first century with a different president and a different agenda that saw the gradual but relentless erosion of the freedoms that had been accumulated.
Since 2000, under the Putin regime, the majority of mainstream media have reverted to their usual role as Kremlin mouthpieces, and nationwide television channels have been reinvented as instruments of war and hate, introducing a new and dangerous form of soft power that has baffled and challenged the West. Putins popularity has soared to 8090 per cent. But Yeltsin had also once inspired the largest demonstrations in the country calling for democracy. The question is: why and how did the dream of democracy and free speech go so wrong, and what can be learned from it?
There had always been a degree of scepticism that free speech in Russia could work. In the early days of
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