The Transformation of Radio Journalists' Strategies in the Soviet Lithuania

Abstract

After the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania in 1940, the only radio operating in Lithuania came under total Soviet control. A multi-level censorship mechanism controlled people working on radio. In the late Soviet decade, The Perestroika and Glasnost policies launched by Soviet leader Gorbachev allowed Lithuanian radio workers to test the limits of the censorship mechanism. The liberation movement that began in 1988 in Lithuania also contributed to this. This study aims to determine how the individual strategies of people working in the Soviet Lithuanian radio field changed during the late Soviet era (1980–1990). In this study, based on Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, radio is understood as a field where each participant acts according to an individual strategy.

Keywords

• journalists
• strategies
• soviet
• lithuania
• radio.