scholarly journals The Spirit of Radio: Hungary 1956, Radio Free Europe, and the Shadow Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
Karl Brown
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The West ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Hungarian Revolution ◽  
Radio Free Europe ◽  
Western Media ◽  
The Revolution

This study explores popular responses to communist rule in Hungary and the role of Western media in the years leading up to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.  Most scholars to date have focused on the guiding role of the intelligentsia and the influence of Radio Free Europe. While these were indeed necessary ingredients in the revolutionary stew, Brown argues that the roots of the revolution are more complex. Hungarians from all social strata listened to many Western radio stations; as a result, many of them adopted critical and informed perspectives on the propaganda directed at them from both Moscow and Washington. As Hungarians listened in on the West, their discussion of news and politics generated a shadow public sphere, in which Radio Free Europe came to occupy a preeminent role despite its biased and propagandistic tone. The shadow public sphere incubated the postwar dream of an egalitarian and democratic Hungary until open political discourse became possible once more in October 1956.

Battling the Big Lie

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Feinberg
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Voice Of America ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
East European ◽  
American Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
Radio Free Europe ◽  
Totalitarian Regimes

This chapter examines the characterization of Eastern Europe in the American media, concentrating on the role of East European émigrés in shaping American perceptions of their homeland. It focuses on the role of American-sponsored radio stations, such as the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe These radio stations broadcast an anticommunist perspective to Eastern Europe and played key roles in creating American knowledge about the region. The annual Crusade for Freedom, designed to raise money for RFE, sought to mobilize Americans against totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe. In the American media, East Europeans were often referred to as “the captive peoples.” This chapter tells the history of this discourse of East European captivity and examines how it circulated back and forth across the Iron Curtain, moving from émigré publications into the American media and back into Eastern Europe.

Inspiration, Subversion, and Appropriation: The Effects of Radio Free Europe Music Broadcasting

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-149
Author(s):  
Filip Pospíšil
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
State Security ◽  
Cultural Preferences ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Radio Free Europe ◽  
The Cold War

During the Cold War, young people in Eastern Europe were often seen as mere recipients and reproducers of Western popular culture. This article examines the role of musical programming in broadcasts by Radio Free Europe (RFE) to Czechoslovakia, focusing on the content, impact, and audience reactions. The article shows that the audience took an active part in the cultural exchange and helped shape the programming on RFE and other Western radio stations. Drawing on RFE's own records as well as archival collections in Prague, including former State Security files, plus memoirs and recollections of former RFE employees and their listeners, the article highlights RFE's impact over time in Soviet-bloc societies, as well as the shifts in thinking, cultural preferences, and behaviors of different strata or groups within these societies.

scholarly journals Efficiency of ‘the fourth estate’ in propaganda war - about the scope of one analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 329-343
Author(s):  
Uros Suvakovic
Keyword(s):  
Print Media ◽  
The West ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
Political Propaganda ◽  
The Subject ◽  
War Propaganda ◽  
Nato Intervention ◽  
Western Media

Analysis of political-propaganda actions of Western media during the Yugoslav crisis with the role in breaking the second Yugoslav state is performed in the paper, on basis of the previously theoretically determined idea of propaganda and political propaganda. By character, it was ?propaganda of war? and in certain intervals it was ?war propaganda?, while the subject of stigmatization were the Serbs, therefore it was decidedly anti-Serbian by the character. Direct occasion for this analysis were scientific researches of Dr. Slobodan Vukovic regarding the Yugoslav crisis, the role of foreign (Austrian, German, British and American) print media in the development of anti-Serbian propaganda as the basis for the breakage of Yugoslavia and the war against the Serbian people and Serbia. In his works (in the period 2000-2018), especially in the last two-volume compound Serbs in the Narrative of the West: ?Humanitarian? NATO Intervention, Vukovic successfully arguments the thesis about the centennial continuous anti-Serbian propaganda and the policy of the West based on it regarding the Serbs, which is the consequence in the greatest extent of the German revanchism for the lost two world wars, but also the result of other interests of the Western forces.

Mass Media and the Generation of Conflict: West Germany's Long Sixties and the Formation of a Critical Public Sphere

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTINA VON HODENBERG
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Professional Ethos

From the 1950s to 1970s the West German public sphere underwent a rapid politicisation which was part of the ongoing socio-cultural democratisation of the Federal Republic. This article examines the role of the mass media and journalistic elites in bringing about this change. It analyses how and when political coverage in the media evolved from an instrument of consensus to a forum of conflict. Arguing that generational shifts in journalism were crucial to this process, two generations, termed the ‘45ers’ and the ‘68ers’, are described in regard to their professional ethos and their attitudes toward democracy, mass culture, German traditions and Western models.

Review of A. B. Nikolaev, Revoliutsiia i vlast’: How Has Nikolaev Changed the Interpretation of the February Revolution?

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
The West ◽  
The Military ◽  
Military Units ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Revolution

A.B. Nikolaev’s book has not received much attention either in the West or in Russia, but it is an important book that has significantly changed our understanding the February Revolution of 1917. Nikolaev’s meticulously researched monograph, based on a wide array of new sources, challenges the previously dominant interpretation that the Provisional Committee of the State Duma (Duma Committee) was forced to seize power only to stem the tide of the insurgency from below. He argues that the Duma Committee was from its inception clear about its intention to overthrow the old regime and to create a new power to replace it even before the Petrograd Soviet was formed. The Duma Committee played a crucial role in prompting military units to take the side of the revolution, in steering the insurgents to the State Duma, in creating the Military Commission to organize insurgents to occupy strategic positions in the city, in taking over the food supply commission to feed the insurgents, in attacking and destroying the tsarist police, while preventing and suppressing potentially dangerous anarchical pogroms, and in taking control over the imperial bureaucracy. Nikolaev also raises an interesting question about the relationship between the Duma Committee, the State Duma and the Provisional Government by arguing that the Provisional Government made a hasty and cardinal mistake in cutting its relationship with the State Duma. This book is a landmark in the interpretation of the February Revolution, and especially of the role of the Duma liberals in the revolution.

“March was but a moment”: 15 March, the Revolution Day from Sándor Petöffy to György Petri

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-66
Author(s):  
Oksana Yakimenko
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hungarian Revolution ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Revolution Of 1848 ◽  
National Romanticism ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Revolution

The article traces the transformation of the way Hungarian poetry has treated one of Hungary’s main national holidays — 15 March, the Day of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 — starting from the late nineteenth century up to the early twenty-first century. Over this period, the Revolution of 1848 became a part of the national historical mythology while poets shifted from praising the heroic deeds of the past to reflecting on the role of this memorial day in national, as well as personal history. Such a shift might be explained not only by new political and ideological contexts that have emerged over time, but also through the way the concept of freedom has transformed at both the national and universal level. In terms of the historical scene, we see a shift from a remembrance day glorifying the past to a revolutionary “holiday of holidays” and later to a symbolic celebration of fighting against enemies which vary depending on the period; finally, national romanticism has been replaced with individual and family history.

The Role of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr in Shiʿi Political Activism in Iraq from 1958 to 1980

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Political Activism ◽  
Iranian Revolution ◽  
The West ◽  
Ayatollah Khomeini ◽  
The Revolution

On 8 April 1980, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was executed. His execution arousedno criticism from the West against the Iraqi regime, however, because Sadr had openly supported the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime in Iran and because the West was distracted by the turbulence in Iran that followed the revolution. Governments both in the West and in the region were concerned that the Iranian revolution would be “exported,” and they set about eliminating that threat. When Ayatollah Khomeini called upon Muslims in Iraq to follow the example of the Iranian people and rise up against the corrupt secular Baʿthist socialist regime, they interpreted it as the first step in the spread of Islamic radicalism that would eventually lead to the destablization of the whole region.

Economic and Legal Support for Commercialization of Intellectual Property in Russia

2003 ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
I. Dezhina ◽  
I. Leonov
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
The State ◽  
Commercial Application ◽  
The West ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Legal Context

The article is devoted to the analysis of the changes in economic and legal context for commercial application of intellectual property created under federal budgetary financing. Special attention is given to the role of the state and to comparison of key elements of mechanisms for commercial application of intellectual property that are currently under implementation in Russia and in the West. A number of practical suggestions are presented aimed at improving government stimuli to commercialization of intellectual property created at budgetary expense.

The role of social networking sites in the revolution of 25 January 2011 Egyptian

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Qassim Alwan Saeed ◽  
Khairallah Sabhan Abdullah Al-Jubouri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
The World ◽  
The Revolution

Social media sites have recently gain an essential importance in the contemporary societies، actually، these sites isn't simply a personal or social tool of communication among people، its role had been expanded to become "political"، words such as "Facebook، Twitter and YouTube" are common words in political fields of our modern days since the uprisings of Arab spring، which sometimes called (Facebook revolutions) as a result of the major impact of these sites in broadcasting process of the revolution message over the world by organize and manage the revolution progresses in spite of the governmental ascendance and official prohibition.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document