The first history in English of Soviet radio from its earliest days to the advent of television, showing the role played by broadcasting in establishing control

The story of radio begins alongside that of the Soviet state: Russia's first long-range transmission of the human voice occurred in 1919, during the civil war.

In Deaf in the USSR, Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility.

What distinguished the Soviet 'look'? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? Soviet Spectatorship answers

Entertainments and popular cultures played a major part in the lives of those experiencing the First World War. This collection of studies spans the role of new