Pravda: Inside the Soviet News Machine by Angus Roxburgh.
Describes the history and production of the Soviet newspaper Pravda which had a circulation of some 10.4 million, and examines the influence of the newspaper on life in the communist Soviet Union. The organ of the ruling Central Committee was "obliged to carry out its perfectly defined line." The lies published in Pravda were setting the tone for all media in the Soviet Union and as such is crucial reading for world governments who must master the technique of probing between the lines in speculating about the significance of stories covered. Fully half the book translates articles from Pravda's pages (about Solidarity, Poland's "political disease"; UN disarmament talks; Britain's antiwar movement; etc.).
Hardcover. 1987.
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