UNIT 3: REVISION DECK

Question 1

What are the different methods of control in this chapter?

Answer 1

1) Mass Media
2) Control of Religion
3) The Police State
4) Art and Culture
5) Cult of Personality

Question 2

What are some criteria you can judge these methods off of?

Answer 2

• Methods effectiveness in conformity and imparting socialist ideas
• Reach: How many people were reached with this?
• Was the measure successful in the long or short term?

Question 3

MASS MEDIA: What were some positives under Lenin?

Answer 3

• Quite successful in using the media to create conformity
• He controlled the press
• He controlled radios which were used on loudspeakers for propaganda
• Access to alternative ideas limited

Question 4

MASS MEDIA - What were some negatives under Lenin?

Answer 4

• Reach limited
• Many people couldn’t read
• Access to radios limited

Question 5

MASS MEDIA - What were the positives under Stalin?

Answer 5

• Made greater use of the press and radio
• Published achievements of the 5YPs
• Important to impart communist ideas: heavy censorship
• Greater reach: more people could read and had access to radios
• greater variety of publications to reach more peoples interests

Question 6

MASS MEDIA -