Stalin's Russia (1924-41) RETAIN POWER (2) Flashcards
What forms of Propaganda were used
- slogans
- cult of Stalin
- media
- the arts
- censorship
- New Soviet Man
Slogans / Icons
used portraits / statues and newspapers to spread ideology
Cult of Stalin
seen as a modest peasant man in portraits
‘Stalin is the Lenin of today’ (1924)
‘Tsaritsyn’ - Stalingrad (1923)
Media
propagandised Pravda and Izvestiya
promoted 5-year-plans
Children
better access to HE
created organisations - Komsomol - Little Octobrists
acted as informants
(membership x5 1929-41)
the Arts (painters)
promoted the ‘little man’
Society of Easel painters
discouraged deviating trends - Jazz
Workers
Stakhanov - model worker
productive workers = rewarded
football
Dynamo + Spartak
Film and Cinema
promoted economic policies
Council of People’s Commissars = ‘socialist realism’
depicts peasants / workers as heroes
Censorship
1932 = all literary groups replaced by Union of Soviet Writers
‘engineers of the soul’
radio airwaves distorted
NSM
glorification of the Russian worker
model citizen
Repression
- Police
- NKVD
- show trials
- purges
police
police state - OGPU
Not as brutal as Cheka - removed by Kamenev
yet still instilled fear
NKVD
used to combat opposition to Stalin
Yagoda - Yezhov - Beria
collected false evidence on political rivals
20,000 purged internally
show trials
public trials of political rivals
almost immediately executed
