This paper traces the making of Soviet popular television as a means of constructing state-sponsored popular culture during Khrushchev’s Thaw period (1953-1964). Previous studies on Soviet mass media tend to approach the evolution of the Soviet (and later post-Soviet) television from the perspective of journalism and its relationship with the authoritarian state and, as a result, highlight TV’s role in building a statist system of compliance and information control from above. Only recently scholars have turned to the cultural aspect of Soviet television by revisiting how the Soviet state also attempted to build popular legitimacy by building mass consensus especially during the Thaw. This paper contributes to this new line of inquiries on Soviet mass media by sketching out the broader socio-cultural context in which television as one of the first domesticated technology to enter Soviet home gave rise to Soviet viewer-consumers.
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