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Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia : From the First Democratic Republic to the Fall of Communism.

"The story of Czechoslovak television is in many respects typical of the cultural and political developments in Central Europe, behind the Iron Curtain. Martin Štoll, with unprecedented access to the Military Historical Archives in Prague, provides contextual insights into the issues of introd...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stoll, Martin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2018.
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  • Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; CONTENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; Introduction; 1 The silent majorities, Sovietization, and 'life within a lie'; The specificities of East European socialisms; In the shadow of Stalin's Statue
  • Communism in Czechoslovakia; PRELUDE Television as aconcept between democracy and Nazism; CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 1 Czechoslovakia
  • The first democratic republic 1918-1938; 2 Radio context: Among the first in Europe; 3 Pioneers of television; Jaroslav Šafránek
  • the Czech Baird; 4 Television as a political matter.
  • A matter of all-state importanceCONTEXTUAL BOX No. 2 The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939-1945; 5 In the hands of the military; What was left after the Nazi occupation; Czechoslovak army attempts to seize control of television; What was left after the liberation; Czechoslovak military television is born!; THE MAIN ACT Television should serve the Communist ideology; 6 Context of Soviet approaches in the televisual space of the Eastern Bloc1; Taking over the organizational patterns; Television content; The expansion and keeping of the colossus.
  • CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 3 Czechoslovakia
  • Prelude to communism, 1945-19487 New totalitarianism on the horizon; Radio means power; Television harvest 1948; CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 4 Czechoslovakia
  • Stalinism 1948-1960; 8 The birth of television in Stalinist Czechoslovakia; How the communists began to need television; 1 May 1953
  • we are broadcasting!; Experimental broadcasting; 9 On its own feet; Television truly Czechoslovak; A sisterly division; CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 5 The golden sixties in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic 1961-1970; 10 The birth of a TV nation.
  • The helplessness of political power, the power of televisionThe fall of censorship and the Prague Spring; 11 Occupation in 1968: We keep broadcasting!; Reaction of power; Fear of the first anniversary and reflections on the Prague Spring; CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 6 Normalization and post- totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia 1970-1989; 12 Television as the last instrument of power; Color television in the black-and-white normalization period; Fear of the opposition; 13 Television as a participant of the Velvet Revolution; CODA Towards public service.
  • CONTEXTUAL BOX No. 7: The Czech and Slovak federal republics' return to democracy, 1989-199214 The birth of a public broadcaster; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SOURCES OF PICTURES; INDEX.