Nikita M. Potapov

A Sociological Analysis of the Role of the Media in the Political Power Legitimization Processes in Russia in the First Half of the 1990s

This article analyzes the discursive strategies of Russian mass media during the period 1991–1993 in the con-text of the legitimization of Boris Yeltsin’s power. On the base of a qualitative discourse analysis of publications in leading print media and television interviews, the authors revealed mechanisms for construc...