An international collection of papers focused on media, culture and society in postcommunist Russia. Contributors deploy a wealth of primary data in examining the kinds of issues that are central to our understanding of the kind of system that has been established in the world's largest country after a period of far-reaching change.

Autorentext
IIKKA LIIKANEN Professor, Director of Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Finland. DIANA SCHMIDT Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen, Germany. RISTO ALAPURO Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland. KATJA KOIKKALAINEN University of Tampere, Finland. SVETLANA PASTI Department of Journalism, Unviersity of Tampere, Finland. JUKKA PIETILÄINEN Journalist MARIE-HÉLÈNE MANDRILLON Centre d'Études des Mondes Russe, Paris, France. MARKUS SOLDNER Institute or Political Science, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. DAVID LANE Professor, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK. BIRGIT BEUMERS Department of Russian Studies, University of Bristol, UK. JOHN M. KRAMER Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Mary Washington, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction; S.White PART 1: CIVIL SOCIETY IN RUSSIA Civil Society and the Reconstitution of Russian Political Space; I.Liikanen What Kind of Civil Society in Russia?; D.Schmidt Russian and Estonian Civil Society Discourses Compared; R.Alapuro PART 2: MEDIA AND SOCIETY Journalistic Source Practices in Russian Business Dailies; K.Koikkalainen Journalists in the Russian Regions; S.Pasti& J.Pietiläinen Debate in Russia over Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol; M-H.Mandrillon Political Capitalism and the Russian Media; M.Soldner PART 3: ECONOMY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY Russia's Asymmetric Capitalism in Comparative Perspective; D.Lane Killers and Gangsters: The Heroes of Russian Blockbusters of the Putin Era; B.Beumers Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS in Russia; J.M.Kramer