Newspapers Flashcards
Lenin viewed newspapers as __________ of the bourgeois?
Mouthpieces
When was the decree that banned all non SOCIALIST newspapers?
Nov 1917
By when were all non-Bolshevik papers eliminated?
Early 1920s
Printing press was NATIONALISED, only those working “_______________” could access
In the interests of the workers and the socialist order
Editors and journalists were
1) EMPLOYEES of the government
2) members of the UNION OF SOVIET JOURNALISTS
3) expected to be PARTY MEMBERS
Censorship office that needed to approve every article for publication
Glavlit
Daly mass newspapers?
Pravda (truth)
Izvestiya (news)
Pravda paper of
Communist Party
Izvestiya paper of
Government
The purpose of the two Soviet daily mass newspapers?
Vehicles of PROPAGANDA (prop, agitation, organisation)
Highlight ACHIEVEMENTS of gov and socialism
Guiding principle of Soviet press (party mindedness)
Partiinost
Papers were cheap and widely available
Posted on boards along pavements
Workplaces
Pravda has a circulation of (1983)
10.7m
Gov controlled unions paper
Trud
Trud has run print of _____? (1983)
13.5m