The Inevitability of the USSR Collapse and the Emergence of New Russia in the Mass Media

• Lusine Ovakimovna Muradian People’s Friendship Russian University of Russia (RUDN University) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1367-2223
• Abbas Mohammadovich Dzhuma People’s Friendship Russian University of Russia (RUDN University) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9891-9434
• Ntentie Mari Nzhipuakuyu People’s Friendship Russian University of Russia (RUDN University) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0789-3780
• Khussein Madzhid Kasem Salekh Academy of Labour and Social Relations https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2978-7519

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.3969.20

Keywords: Russia, USA, mass media, autonomy, federalism

Abstract

From a documentary perspective the article addresses issues such as the collapse of the Soviet Union, separatism in the USSR and the existence of similar destructive processes in modern Russia. Special attention is paid to the role of the media in the collapse of the USSR. The goal was to find out whether the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of New Russia were inevitable. Consequently, the additional objectives of the article are to identify the main reasons for the collapse of the USSR, to draw an analogy with the situation in modern Russia, to analyze propaganda techniques by examining the Moscow News newspaper, and to study and generalize the main problems of inter-ethnic dialogue in the Soviet and post-Soviet space. The relevance of the topic is justified by the lack of a unified view in the community of experts on the causes and consequences of the collapse of the USSR, as well as by the lack of a unified assessment of the period of Perestroika and the inevitability of the transition from socialism to capitalism in Russia. It is concluded that in the geopolitical phenomenon of the collapse of the USSR occupies a special role the national and international media dimension.

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