Radio in the Soviet Union
Type | Broadcast radio |
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Country | |
History | |
Launch date | 1924 |
Closed | 1991 |
Coverage | |
Availability | National International |
Part of a series on the |
Culture of the Soviet Union |
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People |
Languages |
Traditions |
Cuisine |
Festivals |
Literature |
Music |
Sport |
All-Union Radio (
History
Beginning
Following the
On 30 October 1930, from
When the
Radio jamming
Beginning in 1948, the USSR made use of
Jamming was initially attempted by means of superimposed random speech which mimicked station interference.
Nevertheless, people continued (or attempted) to listen to Western broadcasts. In fact, there was even no jamming of these signals (excluding Radio Free Europe) at all, from 1963 to 1968[
The jamming stopped in 1988 (Radio Free Europe was, however, unblocked in August 1991).
Collapse of the USSR
As the USSR began to fall in the 1980s, the radio organisation of the USSR began to shut down as private services were introduced and the USSR's stations were relaunched and refocused.[citation needed]
Stations
Domestic
- USSR, focusing on the political and economic life of the Soviet Union.
- Radio Mayak – music and speech based entertainment
- Radio Yunost – the station for young people
- Radio Orfey– culture, education, classical music
International
- Radio Moscow – the foreign-language service
See also
- Eastern Bloc information dissemination
- Radio jamming
- Censorship in the Soviet Union
- Propaganda in the Soviet Union
- Radio Yerevan jokes
- Media of the Soviet Union
Footnotes
- ^ Rodica Mahu, Radio Moldova se revendica de la Radio Tiraspol Archived 2013-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Radiofonie românească: Radio Basarabia
- ^ a b c d George W. Woodard, "Cold War Radio Jamming," in A. Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta (eds.), Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2010, pg. 53.
- ^ "B.B.C. RUSSIAN BROADCASTS (JAMMING) (Hansard, 30 July 1949)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ a b c Woodard, "Cold War Radio Jamming," pg. 64.