Propaganda Flashcards
importance of propaganda
Stalin understood the importance of propaganda.
It was essential if he was to drive through collectivisation and industrialisation
Propaganda pictures showed…
Happy peasants and productive workers
Who was praised in propaganda
Men such as Stakhanov were widely praised as were Arctic explorers and Soviet aviators
Pavlik Porozov
He was killed by relatives for denouncing his father as a Kulak.
He was given huge publicity as he sacrificed his father for the Socialist cause
Stalin’s image
Ensured he was Lenin’s natural successor with slogans as…
‘Stalin is the Lenin of today’
Peasants even created a ‘red corner’ in their homes just as they had created a saints’ corner in tsarist times.
Lenin’s cult of personality
Lenin did not want any cult for himself.
However, by the late 1920’s Lenin was being treated like a god and the word ‘Lenin’ everywhere in roads, cities and squares.
Petrograd was renamed Leningrad.
Stalin’s cult of personality
Stalin created his own cult of personality.
He was seen at the centre of paintings, and posters and there were huge amounts of statures set up all over Russian showing Stalin as the great leader.
