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The Representation of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Twenty-first Century Russian Media
Lea SiilinMarjatta Vanhala-aniszewskisubject
Economics and EconometricsHistorySociology and Political Sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectGeography Planning and DevelopmentMedia studiesTwenty-First Centuryta6121Dual (grammatical number)AmbivalenceNewspaperRepresentation (politics)PoliticsPersonalitySociologySocial sciencePeriod (music)media_commondescription
The aim of this study is to investigate the representation of Mikhail Gorbachev in contemporary Russian media discourse. Attention is paid to Gorbachev's social roles and activities as well as his personality, as presented in Russian news texts. The empirical data were collected over the period from 2000 to 2009 from seven major Russian newspapers. According to these data, a dual relationship to Gorbachev exists: in the West he is an honoured politician with a high profile, whereas in Russia the attitude towards him is ambivalent. In most texts he is represented as a once important political actor.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-03-01 | Europe-Asia Studies |