Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War

(Cornell University Press) This book traces the evolution of the Soviet Union’s broadcast and film industries, as well as Soviet consumers, from after World War II through the 1970s. The author examines how the Soviet Union succeeded immediately after the war in creating a modern media, which transmitted a very Soviet product; but, by the 1970s, the Soviet media empire was undermining the promise of a unique Soviet culture and losing the cultural Cold War. Roth-Ey is a lecturer in modern Russian history at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.