Towards the Forms of Ownership of the Periodical Press in the Ussr in the 1920s

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Maksim I. Babyuk

PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor at the Chair of Mass Media Theory and Economics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: mbabyuk@yandex.ru

Section: History of Journalism

This paper analyzes the forms of ownership of the periodical press enterprises and organizations that existed in the USSR in the 1920s. Drawing on archive sources, the author attempts to briefly describe the policy of the Soviet power in this field, trace the ratio of the forms of ownership of print media during the larger part of the period in question and evaluate the importance of the ownership factor for the actual operation of enterprises under a strict state control. In the paper, the author points to the diversity of ownership existing in the USSR at the time of NEP in three major forms: state, public and private. This diversity survived up until the early 1930s, although archive data indicate that it was common only for large political and social centers of the USSR.

Keywords: the periodical press, ownership, media economics, the USSR, NEP
DOI: 10.30547/vestnik.journ.6.2019.2551

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