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• catalog abstract "By the 1980s the Soviet Union had matched the United States in military might and far surpassed it in the production of steel, timber, concrete, and oil. But the electronic whirlwind that was transforming the global economy had been locked out by Communist leaders. Heirs to an old Russian tradition of censorship, they had banned photocopiers, prohibited accurate maps and controlled word-for-word even the scripts of stand-up comedians. Hoping to "renew socialism" and save a Communist system in decay, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power determined to lift restrictions on the control of communications and information. What happened next is the subject of Scott Shane's brilliant account in Dismantling Utopia. On the scene in Moscow as correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, he witnessed firsthand how Gorbachev experiment produced a revolution that proved fatal to his party, his government, and his own political career. Shane's compellingly readable story is filled with memorable characters, revealing vignettes, and striking statistics. Gorbachev scarcely anticipated the information revolution "that between 1987 and 1991 swept across Soviet existence, touching every nook of daily life, battering hoary myths and lies, and ultimately eroding the foundations of Soviet power," Shane writes, "Information, the forbidden fruit, was around every corner, on everyone's mind - the young woman on the Metro with her copy of the journal Nory Mir bent open to the latest installment of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago; scores of Muscovites elbowing one another to get a glimpse of the latest copy of Moscow News, pinned behind glass each Wednesday night at Pushkin Square; friends hustling you into their apartment direct to the TV to catch the latest sensation." Moving from television studios to KGB offices, from comedy concerts to street demonstrations, Shane explores the profound consequences of Gorbachev's initiative. As newspapers, television, books, films, and videotapes flooded the country with information about the Stalinist past, the Communist present, and life in the rest of the world, the Soviet system was driven to ruin. Shane's uncommon perspective also places one of the century's momentous events in larger context: the universal struggle of governments to keep information from the people, and the irresistible power of technology over history.".
• catalog contributor b5807294.
• catalog coverage "Soviet Union Politics and government 1985-1991.".
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description "1. Before: Information Criminal -- 2. Information Control and the Soviet Crisis -- 3. What Price Socialism? An Economy Without Information -- 4. The KGB, Father of Perestroika -- 5. The Press and the Restoration of History -- 6. Television and the Revival of Politics -- 7. A Normal Country: The Pop Culture Explosion -- 8. Letting Go of the Leninist Faith -- 9. After: The Coup-Proof Society.".
• catalog description "By the 1980s the Soviet Union had matched the United States in military might and far surpassed it in the production of steel, timber, concrete, and oil. But the electronic whirlwind that was transforming the global economy had been locked out by Communist leaders. Heirs to an old Russian tradition of censorship, they had banned photocopiers, prohibited accurate maps and controlled word-for-word even the scripts of stand-up comedians.".
• catalog description "Gorbachev scarcely anticipated the information revolution "that between 1987 and 1991 swept across Soviet existence, touching every nook of daily life, battering hoary myths and lies, and ultimately eroding the foundations of Soviet power," Shane writes, "Information, the forbidden fruit, was around every corner, on everyone's mind - the young woman on the Metro with her copy of the journal Nory Mir bent open to the latest installment of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago; scores of Muscovites elbowing one another to get a glimpse of the latest copy of Moscow News, pinned behind glass each Wednesday night at Pushkin Square; friends hustling you into their apartment direct to the TV to catch the latest sensation."".
• catalog description "Hoping to "renew socialism" and save a Communist system in decay, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power determined to lift restrictions on the control of communications and information. What happened next is the subject of Scott Shane's brilliant account in Dismantling Utopia. On the scene in Moscow as correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, he witnessed firsthand how Gorbachev experiment produced a revolution that proved fatal to his party, his government, and his own political career. Shane's compellingly readable story is filled with memorable characters, revealing vignettes, and striking statistics.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-304) and index.".
• catalog description "Moving from television studios to KGB offices, from comedy concerts to street demonstrations, Shane explores the profound consequences of Gorbachev's initiative. As newspapers, television, books, films, and videotapes flooded the country with information about the Stalinist past, the Communist present, and life in the rest of the world, the Soviet system was driven to ruin. Shane's uncommon perspective also places one of the century's momentous events in larger context: the universal struggle of governments to keep information from the people, and the irresistible power of technology over history.".
• catalog extent "324 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Dismantling utopia.".
• catalog identifier "1566630487 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Dismantling utopia.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Chicago : Ivan R. Dee,".
• catalog relation "Dismantling utopia.".
• catalog spatial "Soviet Union Politics and government 1985-1991.".
• catalog spatial "Soviet Union.".
• catalog subject "363.3/1/094709048 20".
• catalog subject "Communication policy Soviet Union.".
• catalog subject "P95.82.S65 S5 1994".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Before: Information Criminal -- 2. Information Control and the Soviet Crisis -- 3. What Price Socialism? An Economy Without Information -- 4. The KGB, Father of Perestroika -- 5. The Press and the Restoration of History -- 6. Television and the Revival of Politics -- 7. A Normal Country: The Pop Culture Explosion -- 8. Letting Go of the Leninist Faith -- 9. After: The Coup-Proof Society.".
• catalog title "Dismantling Utopia : how information ended the Soviet Union / Scott Shane.".
• catalog type "text".