propaganda Flashcards
Lenin understood the value of propaganda and used it particularly well in ?
the civil war
what were employed to win converts to socialism ?
posters films and the arts
for barely literate peasants what was understood as an effective means of mobilising support?
the power of the striking representation or the simply repeated message
the bolsheviks wanted to keep well-known artists on their side if possible and for their part, were encouraged by?
the ending of tsarist censorship
in the first years after revolution what was Andrea that the bolsheviks encouraged
artistic freedom
innovators in the arts were called
the ‘aavnt-garde’
Stalin too relied heavily on his propaganda machine to?
harness support for his collectivisation and industrial policies
what was used to reinforce the socialist message?
pictures full of happy, productive workers
heroes e.g Stakhanov were extolled as like models to copy
examples of sacrifice in the socialist cause
stories of model citizens given wide publicity in the press
e.g the young Pavlov Porozov who denounced his father as a kulak and was killed by angry relatives
pictures and posters often showed?
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Lenin and Stalin in continuous progression , bringing enlightenment to the Russian people
Stalin thus reinforced his own position, how?
the associations made between himself and Lenin
reinforced through slogans like ‘ Stalin is the Lenin of today’
peasants even created?
a ‘red corner’ of the great leaders in their homes, in the same way they may have created a saint’s corner in tsarist times
what grew enormously under Stalin?
A ‘cult of personality’
unlike Stalin, lenin had never sought ?
cult status but it occurred after his death, largely through the efforts of Stalin , who wanted to appear his disciple
by the later 1920s lenin was treated as?
What did Stalin insist after Lenin’s death?
a. god whose word held the answer to all Russian problems
Stalin even insisted (against Lenin’s widow Krupskaya’s wishes) that his body be embalmed =, and Lenin’s tomb turned into a shrine
