PROPAGANDA S&L Flashcards
What was the May Day military parade?
Parade through the streets of Moscow, the building-size portraits of Lenin and stirring posters of heroic industrial workers were carried.
How was propaganda spread in the pre-Revolutionary years?
Pamphlets and the newspaper Iskra.
How many members were there of the Bolshevik party in the beginning of 1917?
The party had only 25,000 members.
What was the most important struggle for the Bolsheviks?
The Civil War.
What did the Bolsheviks use as a propaganda mechanism in 1920?
Lorries in Petrograd which were converted into cinemas with the aim of touring the country to show short films.
What were literate peasants encouraged to do?
Read Bolshevik pamphlets to their illiterate comrades.
What had the revolution initiated?
A ‘cultural explosion’ and even culture was enlisted into the battle to consolidate the Bolshevik regime.
How were enemies of the regime usually portrayed?
As evil, vicious, ugly or threatening characters.
What did propaganda reflect after Stalin assumed leadership?
The ‘siege mentality’.
What did Stalin use in early 1928?
The ‘war-scare’ strategy, a contrived crisis of threats from outside the Union.
What did Stalin use the ‘war-scare’ strategy to introduce?
The Shackhty show trials.
What were the early years of the 1930s?
Ones of major upheaval, violence, pressure, catastrophic famine and terror.
What did both Lenin and Stalin choose to put the country on?
A ‘war footing’ to combat these real and perceived problems.
What did those who worked and sacrificed the most become?
‘Heroes of Socialist labour’.
Who was the most famous example of ‘Heroes of Socialist labour’?
Alexei Stakhanov - in the mines of Dombass who cut 16 times more coal than the average of 7 tonnes.
