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This 6 page paper discusses Robert Kaiser's 1976 book, Russia: The People and the Power. A summary of the contents and a discussion of the issues such as corruption in the USSR during the Cold War years, as well as reflections on the new Russia.
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consider who is pulling the strings for most of the industries in the nation, then it reduced to a pitiful handful who are calling the shots and in essence determining
social policies, and indirectly (and sometimes directly) federal policies. However, when one considers the alternative, such as was exampled by the infamous Pravda in the former Soviet Union, one can
see that Robert Kaisers book, The People and the Power is an apt illustration of how powerful a tool of freedom the media can be. The Soviet state had a
complete monopoly on publishing as well as on radio and television within the USSR. And it banned any and all attempts to create alternative media, making it illegal to print
anything not sanctioned with the blessings of the Politburo. Many books were banned and burned in the satellite countries such as Romania and Yugoslavia. Kaiser states, however, that this did
not stop the people from printing their own words and stories. They just had to become more clever and secretive about it. Making it hard for individuals to reproduce their
texts certainly impeded the flow of ideas in Russian culture, but illegal writing did not die. The Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote novels and histories of the underside of Soviet
life, and his work was smuggled out to the West(Kaiser, 1976). The samizdat press never stopped despite frequent arrests and harassment(Kaiser, 1976). Now, in the new Russia, these texts
have found their way back into the mainstream media. No longer relegated to the underground, these manuscripts have surfaced and are putting forth(some of them decades after their creation)the ideas
and thoughts of their authors, at one time considered too subversive. "The Soviet System," Kaiser writes, "is based on the assumption that the citizenry cannot be trusted"(Kaiser, 1976,
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