Moskvaprocesserna i svensk press

• The Moscow trials During the Great Terror in the USSR, 1936–38, countless crimes against human rights were committed. As we know, the period was characterised by arrests, summary trials, deportations and executions of individuals and groups on a large scale. During these years, too, the ‘show trials’ took place in Moscow. These trials created a marked stir in the Swedish press: in contrary to the uninterest in the Great Famine, the Moscow trials got a lot of press coverage and attention. How come? And in what way did the press report about the trials? These are some of the questions adressed in this book chapter. “Media Events” is a term set by media researchers Dayan and Katz (1994). They discuss a type of arranged communication in distance, like the Olympics or the marriage in a royal family, i.e. exceptional but in the same time pre-planned and well organized events and send all over the world by television. In the case of the trials the media channels were the radio and the press, but according to pre-planning and getting the worlds attention, could one say that Stalin managed to direct a Media Event?

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

The Moscow trials

Swedish press

Stalin

legal processes

The Great Terror

1930:th

Media Event

Moskvaprocesserna

svensk press

Stalin

rättsprocesser

den stora terrorn

1930-talet

mediehändelse

Media and communication studies

Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

journalistik

Journalism

Publikations- och innehållstyp

vet (ämneskategori)

kap (ämneskategori)