Media

Question 1

Non socialist papers banned

Answer 1

November decree 17

Question 2

All non Bolsh papers banned

Answer 2

20s

Question 3

Control of paper

Answer 3

Printing press nationalised
All editors and journalists gvmnt employees
Glavlit censorship HQ

Question 4

Pravda

Answer 4

Party paper

Question 5

Izvestiya

Answer 5

Gvmnt paper

Question 6

Increasing readership of papers

Answer 6

Cheap widely available

Posted on boards, pavements and workplaces

Question 7

Illiteracy at start and how combatted (papers)

Answer 7

65%

Spoken newspaper, group listening

Question 8

Radio

Answer 8

Well developed system by 1922
Interspersed with music
New apartment blocks wired for radio reception but limited gvmnt stations
Until 64 only 1 station

Question 9

Stations under Brezhnev

Answer 9

3

Question 10

Stations up to and inc Khrushchev

Answer 10

1

Question 11

Foreign music played on

Answer 11

Radio Maiak

Question 12

Mass produced radios but

Answer 12

Limited range

Question 13

Consequence of listening to foreign station

Answer 13

Threatened to arrest but rarely did