Repression- censorship under the communists Flashcards
Who faced severe censorship during the first world war? LENIN
-The soldiers
-Had to hear about the Romanov fall from foreign broadcasts.
What was one of the first changes in terms of censorship by the Bolsheviks? LENIN
-Abolish free press in order to ‘supress the counter-revolutionaries’
What department was founded in 1921? LENIN
-The agitation and propaganda department.
What was the aim of the agitation and propaganda department? LENIN
-To create an image of the Russian idealistic life.
What was under constant surveillance to prevent counter-revolutionary material? LENIN
-Schools
-Cinemas
-Radio
-Library
An example of a counter-revolutionary writer who was heavily victimised? LENIN
-Zemyatin.
What did Stalin do in 1932? STALIN
-Shut down all literary groups
-Anyone who wanted to write had to join the soviet union of writers
What did writers under the Soviet Union of Writers have to work under the banner of? STALIN
-Socialist realism
-Depicting the struggle of ordinary people to overcome opression.
What happened to writers who would not conform? STALIN
-sent to exile
-sent to labour camps
-executed.
What did Stalin do in terms of censorship during WW2? STALIN
-promoted the concept of the new soviet man
-distorted and fictionalised news.
How did censorship change under Khrushchev?
-relaxed.
-books and library’s proliferated.
How many books in 1950s? (K)
-65,000 books published per year.
How many libraries by 1959? (K)
135,000
How many books in the 135,000 libraries? (K)
8 Million
What was the total readership of newspapers by the early 1960s? (K)
60M.
