Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chakars, Melissa

Titel

A Means to Modernity: Newspapers, Radio, and Television

Ist Teil von

• The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia, 2014, p.193

Auflage

NED - New edition, 1

Ort / Verlag

Hungary: Central European University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In 1961 officials launched Buryatia’s first TV station, bringing moving and speaking pictures to people in a way that had never existed before. Television was twentieth century modernity in a tangible form available in one’s own home. In Buryatia, the content of local television also told the story of the contemporary era and helped to define society in new ways. The new medium spread quickly across the republic and by 1976, officials announced that 80 percent of the population had the opportunity to watch TV—either at home or at a local clubhouse. That same year authorities also declared that