National Minorities, Propoganda And Culture 1917-41 Flashcards
What did Lenin promise to minorities
Self determination
How did Lenin give nationalities self determination
Decree on nationalities 1917
What areas wanted independence
Finland
Ukraine
Georgia
Who became independent during the civil war
Finland and the Baltic states
Where did Stalin use heavy handed methods
Georgia
After the civil war what was formally established
The USSR
In the NEP which groups rights were actually protected? What was abolished? What was accepted?
Rights of soviet Jews were protected
All anti Semitic laws were abolished
Yiddish accepted as a language
What method did Stalin use to try and stop minorities being able to organise
Internal deportations
Example of internal deportations
Finns and Poles deported from eastern areas of Belorussia and the Ukraine
Who faced internal deportations in 1937
Koreans deported from the east of the USSR and Kurds from the Caucuses
As war became closer what did his propaganda focus on
A nationalistic Russian message
What became compulsory in 1938
Learning Russian became compulsory in all schools
There was a rise of what in the 1930s
Anti semitism
After invading Poland in 1939 how many more Jews came under Russian control
2 million
Examples of Lenin’s phrases in 1917
All power to the soviets
Peace, Bread, Land
After the revolution how did Lenin use propaganda
Present the idea of class enemies
What was developed under Stalin
The cult of personality
What methods were used to mobilise support for the regime
State controlled youth organisations
The arts
Education
Popular culture
The media
Political rituals
Leisure activities
When does Lenin’s cult of personality begin
When he died
What was Petrograd renamed in 1924
Leningrad
What phrase about Stalin was spread after Lenin’s death
‘Stalin is the Lenin of today’
What newspapers were used for propaganda
Pravda and Izvestiya
Why did the communists increase literacy rates
Enable more people to access the propaganda
What did Stalin say in 1935
‘Life has become more joyous’
When was the cultural revolution
1928-32
What did the government call a more centralised control of culture
Socialist realism
Who were encouraged to root out bourgeois elements
Komsomol enthusiasts
