Lesson 1-How effective do you think were the Soviet government in controlling mass media and propaganda? Flashcards
Glavlit
Censorship office of the Soviet government
Pravda
‘Truth’
Newspaper of Communist party
Izvestiya
‘News’
Newspaper of the government
Partiinost
Party mindedness
Trud
‘Labour’
Newspaper of government-controlled trade union
When was the ban on all non-socialist newspapers?
Nov 1917
When was the development of the voice radio in the USSR?
1921
What decade did the cult of Stalin develop?
1930s
When did the mass production of televisions begin in the USSR?
1958
When were all non-Bolshevik newspapers banned?
1920
Through what ways was Soviet media controlled by the state?
Nationalisation
Restriction of information
Censorship
What did Lenin view newspapers as?
The mouthpiece of the bourgeoisie
In what ways did the Soviet government control newspapers?
- Journalists were employees of government, members of the Union of Soviet Journalists and Party members.
- Approval from Glavlit needed for every article written
- Party and government newspapers introduced
What were Pravda and Izvestiya used as?
A vehicle of propaganda used for highlighting the achievements of the government and Socialism.
Purpose of Pravda and Izvestiya.
To act as an instrument of propaganda, agitation and organisation.
What did the government do to ensure that their newspapers had high readership?
Made them cheap
Copies pasted on boards by pavement so people could read them for free
Pravda and Izvestiya were mass newspapers. How many copies of Pravda were in circulation in 1983?
10.7 million
How many copies of Trud were in circulation by 1983?
13.5 million
Give an example of the details of the achievements of Socialism that the newspapers include.
Production figures of the latest economic plan (usually telling people that the plans had been overfulfilled)