Leninist Control Through Cuultural Change + Propaganda

Question 1

What was Lenin’s view on propaganda?

Answer 1

-understood value of it esp during civil war
-poster, films, art used to promote socialism
-for peasantry power of a striking representation or repeated message understood as effective means of mobilising support

Question 2

How was Lenin being viewed in the later 1920@ following his socialist propaganda?

Answer 2

-being treated like a god
-Stalin insisted Lenin’s body be embalmed + turned into a shrine
-word ‘Lenin’ appeared everywhere as roads, cities + squares renamed after him

Question 3

How was Lenin worshipped as a god in Russia?

Answer 3

-Petrograd was renamed in 1924 to ‘Leningrad’

Question 4

What was the ‘silver age’ of Russia lit and poetry?

Answer 4

-when freedom of expression was encouraged
-only if it didn’t encourage counter rev

Question 5

What was included in this ‘silver age’?

Answer 5

-world of music enjoyed experimentation
-was inspired by the rev spirit of the era