Repression- Propaganda Flashcards
What did the Romanovs tend to use in the way of propaganda?
-Pamphleteering
-portraits
-photographs
-staged events
8 ways in which the communists tended to use propaganda?
-Slogans
-Newspapers
-Cult of personality
-groups
-the arts
-the Stakonhvite movement
-Leisure
-Film and TV
What Slogan did the Bolsheviks use?
-Peace, bread and land.
-All power to the soviets.
How was a ‘cult of personality used’?
-Worshipped as heroes.
What Slogan did Stalin use in 1924?
-‘Stalin is the Lenin of today’
Examples of how the cult of personality was used?
-Imagery of Lenin and his body on show.
-Petrograd –> Leningrad –> Stalingrad
How were newspapers used as propaganda?
-Main newspapers including Pravda used as propaganda tools.
-Stalin used Pravda to promote 5 year plans.
How were youth groups used as propaganda?
-used to ‘protect the young against the Bourgeoisie’.
-Membership increased 5 fold from 1929 to 1941
-Encouraged to tell tales on those criticising the leaders.
How were the arts used as propaganda?
-emphasis on the ‘little man’ and traditional values
-Trends such as jazz banned.
What was the Stakonhvite movement?
-Alexia Stakonvite
-promotion of overproduction
How was leisure used as propaganda?
-football teams showing how Russia could perform under communist rule.
How was the use of film and cinema used as propaganda?
encouragement of ‘socialist realism’ in the films shown
What happened to film under Khrushchev?
-more cinemas and film
-less propaganda
