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About the author: Kristin Roth-Ey (PhD Princeton University) is a Lecturer in Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL). She has published widely on Soviet mass media and its audience. Her book Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2011) explores the broadcasting and film industries, and everyday consumers in the Soviet Union from the end of World War II through the 1970s. In collaboration with the Universities of Exeter, Oxford, Columbia, Leipzig and Belgrade, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, she is currently leading the AHRC -funded project, ‘Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Connections Between the ‘Second’ and ‘Third Worlds’ 1945-1991’.