3.4 Stalin's Propaganda Flashcards
What was Tsaritsyn renamed to in 1925?
Stalingrad
What did Stalin do to photos?
He doctored them to removed other Politburo members from photos with Lenin and Stalin in.
What happened on Stalin’s 50th birthday?
He received 350 birthday greetings, some from organisations that didn’t even exist.
What was the 1926 Treaty of Berlin?
This was a treaty between Russia and Germany which reinstated the importance of the Treaty of Rapallo as the basis for friendly relations.
Germany promised to remain neutral if Russia was attacked and promised not to join an economic boycott against Russia.
What was the 1935 Stakhanovite Movement?
Alexei Stakhanovite mined 102 tons of coal in a 6 hour shift, which was 14x above his quota and hailed by Pravda as a world record.
This was an example of glorifying the working class, and set a notion which meant workers could be given the title of Stakhanovite for exceptional effort or those who set production records.
Stakhanovite were rewarded with extremely high wages.
