Simon Huxtable is Lecturer in Modern European History at Birkbeck, University of London. His work focuses on the history of the Soviet Union, with a particular focus on mass media. He is the co-author, with Sabina Mihelj, of From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television (2018) and has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on the history of the press and television in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

• Introduction: Reformers and Propagandists: The Paradoxes of Postwar Soviet Journalism


• Part I: 1945-1957: Ritual Socialism


• 1: Rituals, Routines, and Ideology in the Late Stalinist Press


• 2: Satire, Sensations, and Slander: Criticism and Self-Criticism from Stalin to the Secret Speech


• Part II: 1956-1964: Romantic Socialism


• 3: Far From Moscow: Heroic Autobiographies and the Paradoxes of Thaw Modernity


• 4: From Word to Deed: The Communard Method and Thaw Citizenship


• Part III: 1960-1970: Reforming Socialism


• 5: The Institute of Public Opinion and the Birth of Soviet Polling


• 6: From Technocracy to Stagnation: When Did the Thaw Freeze Over?


• Epilogue: Thaw Journalism after the Thaw

News from Moscow is a social and cultural history of Soviet journalism after World War II. Focusing on the youth newspaper Komsomol'skaia Pravda, the study draws on transcripts of behind-the-scenes editorial meetings to chart the changing professional ethos of the Soviet journalist.