Media and Communication in the Soviet Union (1917–1953)

Kirill Postoutenko is Senior Researcher in the Special Research Area 1288 (Practices of Comparison) at Bielefeld University, Germany.Alexey Tikhomirov is Assistant Professor of East European History at Bielefeld University, Germany. Dmitri Zakharine is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

• 1. Soviet Communication and Soviet Society (1917–1953): Alignments and Tensions.- Part I Channels.- 2. Visual Channels (1): Posters and Fine Art.- 3. Visual Channels (2): Cityscapes.- 4. Visual Channels (3): Cartography.- 5. Auditory Channels: Crowing Roosters and Wailing Sirens.- 6. Tactile Channels: Brotherly Kisses, Handshakes, and Flogging in a Bathhouse.- Part II Media.- 7. Public Body (1): Popular Assemblies.- 8. Public Body (2): Mass Festivals.- 9. Public Body (3): State Celebrations and Street Festivities.- 10. Private Body: Kitchen Gossip and Bedroom Whispers.- 11. Public Print (1): Books and Periodicals.- 12. Public Print (2): Coins and Bank Notes.- 13. Private Handwriting (1): Diaries.- 14. Private Handwriting (2): Personal Letters.- 15. Private Handwriting (3): Denunciations.- 16. Private/Public Handwriting: Self-reports.- 17. Electrical Signaling (1): Telegraph.- 18. Electrical Signaling (2): Telephone.- 19. Electrical Signaling (3): Film.- 20. Electrical Signaling (4):Radio.- Part III Boundaries and Flows.- 21. Boundaries (1): "Nomenclatura" Versus the Rest.- 22. Boundaries (2): "Comrades" vs. Deviants.- 23. Top-down Verbal Messaging: Textbooks.- 24. Bottom-up Non-verbal Messaging: Applause.- 25. Top-down Extraction of Bottom-up Messages: Surveillance.