Re: Radio Moscow

[Simo]

   Dear Chris (reply to the list),

   firstly, it's truly great to hear that someone is finally tackling the topic of Radio Moscow. There has definitely been too little research on Radio Moscow, its overseas operations, even about Soviet domestic radio operations in general. I'm really looking forward to your work that hopefully balances our knowledge about Cold War radio.

 

   Some time ago I finished a chapter on Radio Moscow, for which I've gathered some preliminary ideas about Radio Moscow's overseas

http://www.nomos-shop.de/Badenoch-Fickers-Henrich-Franke-Airy-Curtains-European-Ether/productview.aspx?product=14383 But this chapter is likely far from helpful to you in learning about Radio Moscow's programming schedule. I merely collected some little statistics about Radio Moscow's weekly output and tried to point out the need for extensive research with this chapter.

   When it comes to weekly programming, I have encountered Radio Moscow's programming schedules in Finnish in several instances. At times, they even bought spots from Finnish magazines and newspapers and publicized their programming schedule. They also used the Finnish-Soviet Society for spreading information about Soviet broadcasts. Mostly, they only managed to get ads to Communist or communist-leaning newspapers. But I would guess that similar papers in English would have these schedules. I don't know the situation with British-Soviet Society, but I would guess that it was used as well for publicizing Soviet broadcasts.

   Of course, if you have a chance to go to Russia, archives of Radio Committee and later Gosteleradio at GARF certainly have the necessary documents. Also, I would guess that Soviet radio magazines, like "Radio", would have necessary details about domestic programming, as well as numerous Soviet newspapers. But this must be nothing new to you, and you might be looking for something else.

   Recently, I went through some USIA analyses about Soviet radio programming and their general contents (also some quite detailed ones), and prior to that, I've gone through quite a number of different analyses made by RL's & RFE's research units, but as my focus has so far been on 1950s & 60s, I don't know much about the situation beyond these years.

 

   Hope you found something helpful here.

   Best wishes,

   Simo

 

 

   Simo Mikkonen

   Adjunct Professor, PhD

   Department of History and Ethnology

   University of Jyväskylä (Finland)

[Chris Deal]

Dear Simo,

Thank you for the detailed reply, I will look into some of the things you mention and definitely get a copy of the book when it is released. 

Many thanks,

Chris