Lexington Books
Pages: 204
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-66694-118-0 • Hardback • September 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-66694-119-7 • eBook • September 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Vladimir Đorđević is associate professor in the Department of Area Studies at the Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University.
Foreword Dimitar Bechev
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: From Theory to Method
Chapter 2: Revisiting the State of the Art and Broadening the Field
Chapter 3: Identifying and Defining the Propagandist: The Case of Sputnik Srbija
Chapter 4: Contextualizing the Propaganda: The Contemporary Serbian Media Space
Chapter 5: Sputnik Srbija Utilization Techniques: Metaphors, Historical Parallels, and Symbols
Chapter 6: Ideological Framework of the Sputnik Propaganda
Chapter 7: Target Audience: The Case of the “First Serbia”
Conclusion
Afterword Jade McGlynn
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
“In this insightful book, Vladimir Đorđević, a rising star in Western Balkan studies, analyzes Russia’s presence in the Serbian mediascape, showing how this affects Serbian public opinion and serves the interests of an authoritarian political elite. For anyone interested in contemporary Serbian affairs or in how Russia wields influence beyond its borders, this is an exceptionally useful volume.”
— Sabrina P. Ramet, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
“While the book spotlights the phenomenon of Russian media presence in Serbia, it usefully moves beyond the canonical paradigm of the research in propaganda and soft power. Instead, it engages with the area studies in politics, ideology and media in both Russia and Serbia and proposes an analytical framework for understanding the international impact of Russia’s ideology as a “two-way traffic” of ideas, metaphors, and political visions. The book, thus, attains a truly stereoscopic understanding of the reasons for Putinism’s broad resonance beyond its own country.”
— Mikhail Suslov, University of Copenhagen