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space were closely tied to a sense of utopia and the idea that communism was superior to other forms of government. In a press release after Sputnik's launch the Soviet Union states that "...our contemporaries will witness how the freed and conscientious labour of the people of the new socialist society makes the most daring dreams of mankind a reality." The concept of success in science and space exploration were closely tied to the concept of a new socialist society and the utopia that would be created in that society.

1280: 2144:, in which the history of the governing party was significantly altered and revised including the importance of the leading figures during the Bolshevik revolution. Retrospectively, Lenin's primary associates such as Zinoviev, Trotsky, Radek and Bukharin were presented as "vacillating", "opportunists" and "foreign spies" whereas Stalin is depicted as the chief discipline during this revolution. However, in reality, Stalin was considered a relatively unknown figure with secondary importance at the time of the event. 1946: 9132: 3169: 1046: 734: 2863: 2895: 2460: 9144: 2448: 1646:, with writers explicitly told to produce heroization. While these heroes had to stem from the people, they were set apart by their heroic deeds. Stakhanov himself was well suited for this role, not only a worker but for his good looks like many poster hero and as a family man. The hardships of the First Five-Year Plan were put forth in romanticized accounts. In 1937–38, young heroes who accomplished great feats appeared on the front page of 1881: 2743:(Nazis), and declaring they had no quarrel with the people. The only way to discover if a German soldier had fallen alive into Soviet hands was to listen; the radio would announce that a certain prisoner would speak, then give some time for his family to gather and listen, and fill it with propaganda. A National Committee for 'Free Germany' was founded in Soviet prisoner-of-war camps in an attempt to foment an uprising in Germany. 39: 2161:. He argued that the Stalinist faction routinely distorted political events, forged a theoretical basis for irreconcilable concepts such as the notion of "Socialism in One Country" and misrepresented the views of opponents through an array of employed historians alongside economists to justify policy manoeuvering and safeguarding its own set of material interests. 1527:. The self-proclaimed purpose of the magazine was to "reflect in photography the whole scope and variety of the construction work now going on the USSR". The issues were aimed primarily at an international audience, especially Western left-wing intellectuals and businessmen, and were quite popular during its early publications, with subscribers including 1745:, and when it was found that many peasant opponents were not rich enough to qualify, they were declared "sub-kulaks." "Kulaks and other class-alien enemies" were often cited as the reason for failures on collective farms. Throughout the First and Second Five-Year Plans, kulaks, wreckers, saboteurs and nationalists were attacked, leading up to the 2982:

well-meaning but naive Westerners to support Soviet overt or covert goals. A witness in a US congressional hearing on Soviet cover activity described the goals of such organizations as to "spread Soviet propaganda themes and create false impression of public support for the foreign policies of Soviet Union."

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Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, the concept of a socialist utopia was heavily proselytized by the Soviet government. Under the Khrushchev administration, this idea of a Soviet utopia was worked heavily into the concept of space travel and spreading across the world. The accomplishments in

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Many Soviet works depicted the development of a "positive hero" as requiring intellectualism and hard discipline. He was not driven by crude impulses of nature but by conscious self-mastery. The selfless new man was willing to sacrifice not only his life but his self-respect and his sensitivity for

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Trotsky and a small group of Communists regarded the Soviet Union as doomed without the spread of the revolution internationally. The victory of Stalin, who regarded the construction of socialism in the Soviet Union as a necessary exemplar to the rest of the world and represented the majority view,

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drained out the Lenin cult – an effect shown in posters, where at first Lenin would be the dominating figure over Stalin, but as time went on became first only equal, and then smaller and more ghostly, until he was reduced to the byline on the book Stalin was depicted reading. This occurred despite

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as a class, a position reinforced by the many actions against landlords, well-off peasants, banks, factories, and private shops. Stalin warned, often, that with the struggle to build a socialist society, the class struggle would sharpen as class enemies grew more desperate. During the Stalinist era,

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We must make the young into a generation of Communists. Children, like soft wax, are very malleable and they should be moulded into good Communists... We must rescue children from the harmful influence of the family... We must nationalize them. From the earliest days of their little lives, they must

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During the early stages of World War II, it was overtly presented as a war between capitalists, which would weaken them and allow Communist triumph as long as the Soviet Union wisely stayed out. Communist parties over the world were instructed to oppose the war as a clash between capitalist states.

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He often figured as the great father of the "great family" that was the new Soviet Union. Regulations on how exactly to portray Stalin's image and write of his life were carefully promulgated. Inconvenient facts, such as his having wanted to cooperate with the Tsarist government on his return for

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views. All teachers were prone to strictly follow the plan for educating children approved by the top for reasons of safety, which could cause serious problems dealing with social events that, having just happened, were not included in the plan. Children of "socially alien" elements were often the

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never looked for and did not find devilishly clever methods to influence people's minds, to brainwash them." Kenez says this lack of interest "followed from their notion of propaganda. They thought of propaganda as part of education." In a study published in 1958, business administration professor

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During World War II, the slogans were altered from overcoming backwardness to overcoming the "fascist beast" but continued focus on production. The slogan proclaimed "Everything for the Front!" Teams of Young Communists were used as shocktroops to shame workers into higher production as well as

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Since communist society was the highest and most progressive form of society, it was ethically superior to all others, and "moral" and "immoral" were determined by whether things helped or hindered its development. Tsarist law was overtly abolished, and while judges could use it, they were to be

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made a central theme the importance of the common people in saving Russia while nobles and merchants did nothing, a motif that was heavily employed. Still, the figures selected had no socialist connection. Artists and writers were permitted more freedom, as long as they did not criticize Marxism

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Even before the Bolshevists seized power, Lenin proclaimed in speeches that the Revolution was the vanguard of a worldwide revolution, both international and socialist. The workers were informed they were the vanguard of world socialism; the slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" was constantly

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were glorified. The twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution was honored with a five volume work glorifying the accomplishments of socialism and (in the last volume) "scientifically based fantasies" of the future, raising such questions as whether the whole world or only Europe would be

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Military metaphors were used frequently for this creation, as in 1929, where the collectivization of agriculture was officially termed a "full-scale socialist offensive on all fronts." The Second Five-Year Plan saw a slowdown of the Socialist Offensive, this against a propaganda background of

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were explicitly told that they were to build a utopia of brotherhood and justice, and to not be like their parents, but completely Red. "Lenin's corners", "political shrines for the display of propaganda about the god-like founder of the Soviet state", were established in all schools. Schools

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Soviet-run movements pretended to have little or no ties with the USSR, often seen as noncommunist (or allied to such groups), but were controlled by the USSR. Most members and supporters, did not realize that they were instruments of Soviet propaganda. The organizations aimed at convincing

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Propaganda can start a large movement or revolution, but only if the masses rally behind one another to make the images produced by propaganda a reality. Good propaganda must instill hope, faith, and certainty. It must bring solidarity among the population. It must stave off demoralization,

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Art, whether literature, visual art, or performing art, was used for the purpose of propaganda. Furthermore, it should show one clear and unambiguous meaning. Long before Stalin imposed complete restraint, a cultural bureaucracy was growing up that regarded art's highest form and purpose as

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In the 1920s, much Soviet propaganda for the outside world was aimed at capitalist countries as plutocracies, and claiming that they intended to destroy the Soviet Union as the workers' paradise. Capitalism, being responsible for the ills of the world, therefore was fundamentally immoral.

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A "Godless Five-Year Plan" was proclaimed, purportedly at the instigation of the masses. Christian virtues such as humility and meekness were ridiculed in the press, with self-discipline, loyalty to the party, confidence in the future, and hatred of class enemies being recommended instead.

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Many Soviet citizens found treatment of soldiers who fell into enemy hands as "traitors to the Motherland" as suitable for their own grim determination, and "not a step back" was supposed to inspire soldiers to fight with self-sacrifice and heroism. However, this was in fact realized via

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Campaigns against the society of Imperial Russia continued well into the Soviet Union's history. One speaker recounted how men had had to serve for twenty-five years in the imperial army, to be heckled by an audience member that it did not matter, since they had had food and clothing.

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In face of the threat of Nazi Germany, the international claims of communism were played down, and people were recruited to help defend the country on patriotic motives. The presence of a real enemy was used to inspire action and production in face of the threat to the

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The very first law the Soviets passed on assuming power was to suppress newspapers that opposed them. This had to be repealed and replaced with a milder measure, but by 1918, Lenin had liquidated the independent press, including journals stemming from the 18th century.

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In 1922, the deportation of writers and scholars warned that no deviation was permitted, and pre-publication censorship was reinstated. Due to a lack of Bolshevist authors, many "fellow travelers" were tolerated, but money only came as long as they toe the party line.

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Stalin presented himself as a simple man of the people, but distinct from everyday politics by his unique role as leader. His clothing was carefully selected to cement this image. Propaganda presented him as Lenin's heir, exaggerating their relationship, until the

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guided by "revolutionary consciousness". Under the pressure of the need for law, more and more was implemented; Stalin justified this in propaganda as the law would "wither away" best when its authority was raised to the highest, through its contradictions.

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Class hatred should be cultivated by an organic revulsion as far as the enemy is concerned. Enemies must be seen as inferior. I believe quite profoundly that the enemy is our inferior, and is a degenerate not only in the physical plane but also in the moral

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In the 1950s, Khrushchev repeatedly boasted that the USSR would soon surpass the West in material well-being. Other Soviet officials agreed that the USSR would soon show its superiority because capitalism was like a dead herring – shining as it rotted.

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and targeted them with ridicule. This included lurid anti-religious processions and newspaper articles that backfired badly, shocking the deeply religious population. It was stopped and replaced by lectures and other more intellectual methods. The

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towed a barge equipped as an outdoor cinema to show films, such as 'Electricity in the Countryside', to audiences of 1000 strong at a single performance. There was a shop that sold books; and the ship had its own press to produce free literature

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Early in the revolution, atheistic propaganda was pushed in an attempt to obliterate religion. Regarding religion more as a class enemy, a cause of hate, than a contender for people's minds, the government abolished the prerogatives of the

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as killers, bloodsuckers, and cannibals, and much play was made of atrocity claims. Hatred was actively and overtly encouraged. They were told that the Germans took no prisoners. Partisans were encouraged to see themselves as avengers.

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The propaganda was effectual. Many young people hard at work at construction idolized Stalin. Many people chose to believe that the charges made at the purges were true rather than believing that Stalin had betrayed the revolution.

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the historical accounts describing Stalin as insignificant, or even a "gray blur", in the early Revolution. From the late 1920s until it was debunked in the 1960s, he was presented as the chief military leader of the civil war.

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would be brought on to speak and assure their relatives they were alive, with propaganda being inserted between the announcement that a soldier would speak and when he actually did, in the time allowed for his family to gather.

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In 1929, all forms of religious education were banned as religious propaganda, and the right to anti-religious propaganda was explicitly affirmed, whereupon the League of the Godless became the League of the Militant Godless.

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were an important factor in the indoctrination of children. They were taught to be truthful and uncompromising and to fight the enemies of socialism. By the 1930s, this indoctrination completely dominated the Young Pioneers.

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A common theme was the creation of a new, utopian society, depicted in posters and newsreels, which inspired an enthusiasm in many people. Much propaganda was dedicated to a new community, as exemplified in the use of

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was used, it was used to mean the Soviet Union, although primarily Russian national heroes were used to inspire the soldiers. Appeals were also made that the home of other nationalities was the home of their own.

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the good of others. Equality and sacrifice were touted as the ideal appropriate for the "socialist way of life." Work required exertion and austerity, to show the new man triumphing over his base instincts.

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published bombastic reports from the collective farms of their children. When hot breakfasts were provided for schoolchildren, particularly in city schools, the program was announced with great fanfare.

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Happiness was mandatory; in a novel where a horse was described as moving "slowly", the censor objected, asking why it was not moving speedily, being happy like the rest of the collective farm workers.

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Discussions of the proposed constitution in the 1930s included effusive thanks to "Comrade Stalin." Engineering projects such as canals were described as having been decreed personally by Stalin.

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After World War II, the United States of America was presented as a bastion of imperial oppression, with which non-violent competition would take place, as capitalism was in its last stages.

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In 1939, a rationing plan was considered but not implemented because it would undermine the propaganda of improving care for the people, whose lives grew better and more cheerful every year.

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in the Soviet Union for precisely those purposes for which Americans popularly think psychology would be used in a totalitarian state—political propaganda and the control of human behavior."

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to propagate Communism internationally. Stalin proceeded to use it to promote Communism throughout the world for the benefit of the USSR. When this topic was a difficulty dealing with the

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capitalized the word "God" for the first time, as religious attendance was actually encouraged. Much of this was for foreign consumption, where it was widely disbelieved, with President

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Meetings with speakers were also used. Despite their dullness, many people found they created solidarity, and made them feel important and that they were being kept up to date on news.

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in ten years, or "socialism would be destroyed". In support of the Five-Year Plan, he declared being an industrial laggard had caused Russia's historical defeats. Newspapers reported

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contaminating water by pouring multicolored waters into the statue – was offered to the watching peasants as proof of science, resulting in the crowd killing two of the scientists.

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Red Army soldier grabs the knife in the hand of an enemy dwarf in a Polish uniform, forcing the knife to drop. By Kriukov, Soviet Union, 1939, Poster collection, Hoover Archives

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was pictured in an anti-personality cult. It began with the assertion that he had not joined the Bolshevists until late, after the planning of the October Revolution was done.

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Alexander Hill, "British Lend Lease Aid and the Soviet War Effort, June 1941–1942." The Journal of Military History 71, no. 3 (2007): pp. 773–808. Accessed 1 November 2011.

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of political events such as the October Revolution and the Brest-Litovsk Treaty became a distinctive element of Stalin's regime. A notable example is the 1938 publication,

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were revived to bolster support for the regime, with all accounts carefully censored to prevent accounts of Stalin's early incompetence and defeats, and their heavy cost.

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Illiteracy was regarded as a grave danger, excluding the illiterate from political discussion. In part this was because the people could not be reached by Party journals.

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so that the poor were not excluded by an inability to pay. Films were also shot with stories of partisan activity, and of the suffering inflicted by the Nazis, such as

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were enjoined to struggle for "the cause of Lenin and Stalin". During the purges, he increased his appearances in public, having his photograph taken with children,

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Many warnings were made of the necessity of keeping out of any imperialistic war, as the breakdown of capitalism would make capitalist countries more desperate.

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conducted marches, songs, and pledges of allegiance to Soviet leadership. One of the purposes was to instill in children the idea that they are involved in the

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tone grew in propaganda. Soviet leaders posed as common people, lacking interest in such matters as fine art and ballet, even as they selectively chose from

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Between campaigns against bourgeois culture and making the ideology of the Socialist Offensive intelligible to the masses with cliches and stereotypes, an

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This reflected a change from early days, with emphasis on the "little man" among the anonymous labors, to favoring the "hero of labor" in the end of the

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find themselves under the beneficent influence of Communist schools... To oblige the mother to give her child to the Soviet state – that is our task.

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Despite their own treatment of religion, a revival of Orthodoxy was permitted during World War II to demonize Nazism as the sole enemy of religion.

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in 1939. The Russian text reads "Long Live the great theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin-Stalin". Such welcomings were organized by the activists of the

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Russian history was pressed into providing a heroic past and patriotic symbols, although selectively, for instance praising men as state builders.

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propaganda and began to restrain it to fit that role. Cultural activities were constrained by censorship and a monopoly of cultural institutions.

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Soon after his death, attacks, first veiled and then open, were made on the "cult of the individual" arguing that history was made by the masses.

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way of life". The idea that the upbringing of children was the concern of their parents was explicitly rejected. One schooling theorist stated:

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and officially enshrined it after his death. As early as 1918, a biography of Lenin was written, and busts were produced. With his death, his

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Soviet soldier freeing Ukrainian peasants from Polish lordship, 1939. Note the Poles were characterised as mustached tormentors in jackboots

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Shoot these rabid dogs. Death to this gang who hide their ferocious teeth, their eagle claws, from the people! Down with that vulture

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An institution during World War II was the propaganda train, fitted with presses and portable cinemas, staffed with lecturers. In the

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In 1937, the Industry of Socialism was intended as a major exhibit of socialist art, but difficulties with pain and the problem of "

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On 26 June 1919, VTsIK (The All-Russian Central Executive Committee) placed in command of the agitparokhod (agitation steamboat)

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When the draft of the new constitution led people to believe that private property would be returned and that workers could leave

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Soviet propaganda to Germans during World War II was at pains to distinguish between the ordinary Germans and their leaders, the

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were coming true for the luckiest people in the world. One admission that there were classes – workers, peasants, and working

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An unusual and yet typically Bolshevik method of oral agitation was to send agitational trains and ships into the countryside.

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was, in particular, used to quash dissent among European communist parties and reports of Stalin's growing totalitarianism.

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were rarer than male, but a quarter of all trade-union women were designated as "norm-breaking." For the Paris World Fair,

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Stakhanovites were also used as propaganda figures so heavily that some workers complained that they were skipping work.

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During the 1930s, the development of the USSR was just about the only theme of art, literature and film. The heroes of

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was widely exploited in propaganda to urge on children the duty of informing on even their parents to the new state.

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Children were informed that the "accursed past" had been left far behind them, they could become completely "Red".

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The most effective means to achieve this objective "was the denial of the victim's humanity through the process of

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Immediately after the revolution, books were treated with less severity than newspapers, but the nationalizing of

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Even while a majority of the population was still rural, the USSR was proclaimed "a mighty industrial power."

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For the duration of the pact, propagandists highly praised Germans. Anti-German or anti-Nazi propaganda like

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and his deception. It was only at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s that the Soviet Union's propaganda won the

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was renamed for him on the claim that he had single-handedly, and against orders, saved it in the civil war.

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were put in communal locations, where the peasants would have to come to hear the news, such as changes to

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was commonly used in propaganda aimed outside the USSR during the 1930s, particularly to draw people into

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Stalin bluntly declared the Bolshevists must close the Tsar-induced fifty- or a hundred-year gap with

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Teachers in economic and social sciences were particularly responsible for inculcating "unshakable"

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Propaganda against the United States and the greater Western world included the following actions:

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In Stalinist times, this was often portrayed as a "great family", with Stalin as the great father.

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Later, during the purges, claims were made that criminals had been "reforged" by their work on the

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was flawed because it did not show the necessity of terror in Ivan's persecution of the nobility.

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Raymond Bauer concluded: "Ironically, psychology and the other social sciences have been employed

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Anti-religious propaganda in Russia led to a reduction in the public demonstrations of religion.

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and faked material – targeted at politicians, the academic community, at the public at large."

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of quotas, even though many had not occurred, and where they did, the goods were often shoddy.

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Those organizations received in total more than 100 million dollars from the USSR every year.

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The Soviet Union perpetrated multiple atrocities against the Polish people, most notably the

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condemning both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as atheistic regimes which did not permit

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described the Soviet woman as someone who had and could never have existed before. Female

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Nicolas Werth, Karel Bartošek, Jean-Louis Panné, Jean-Louis Margolin, Andrzej Paczkowski,

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His work for the Soviet Union was praised in paeans to the "light in the Kremlin window."

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Young Pioneers, with their slogan: "Prepare to fight for the cause of the Communist Party"

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movements, campaigns against U.S. missiles in Europe, campaigns against neutron weapons,

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In 1917, coming out of underground movements, the Soviets prepared to begin publishing

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Films were heavily propagandist, although they were pioneers in the documentary field (

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Propaganda in War 1939–1945: Organisation, Policies and Publics in Britain and Germany

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were intensively propagandized before their release in 1949, to act as Soviet agents.

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proclaiming that the masses made history and the error of a "cult of the individual."

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Lectures were habitually used to instruct in the proper way of every corner of life.

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Some historians believe that an important goal of Soviet propaganda was "to justify

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had wanted to pit the USSR against Nazi Germany, but Comrade Stalin had wisely pit

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all opposition leaders were routinely described as traitors and agents of foreign,

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The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917–1929

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Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty

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The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917–1929

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Weeks, Russia's Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the U.S.S.R. in World War II, 126

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Powell, David (1967). "The Effectiveness of Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda".

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called to exterminate enemies "as harmful insects", "lice" and "bloodsuckers".

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Much of the activity of the Soviet-run peace movements was supervised by the

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were instrumental in establishing that the Party was the cornerstone of the

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trumpeting the USSR's triumphs on "the battlefield of building socialism."

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was a monthly edited in Soviet Union in many languages, including English.

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dressed as lords, barons, nobles or generals holding a whip over enslaved

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The first post-mortem attack on Stalin was the publication of articles in

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A common motif in propaganda was that the Soviet Union was peace-loving.

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Propaganda abroad was partly conducted by Soviet intelligence agencies.

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was a subject of this approach from the very beginning. In general, the

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The Five-Year Plan intensified the class struggle with many attacks on

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The class enemy was a pervasive feature of Soviet propaganda. With the

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were purged, sometimes so extremely that works by Lenin were removed.

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From 1930 to 1941, as well as briefly in 1949, the propaganda journal

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The Soviet press showed little favor towards its neighboring states.

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Wall posters were widely used in the early days, often depicting the

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Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army

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Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army

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was a popular figure, often used to defend rich peasants and attack

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was the practice of state-directed communication aimed at promoting

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A digital presentation of several issues of the propaganda journal

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Through the Eyes of the Enemy: The Autobiography of Stanislav Lunev

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The radio was put to good use, especially to reach the illiterate;

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Many Soviet and Communist writers and artists participated in the

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Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development, and Social Change

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Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development, and Social Change

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Subsequently, the USSR was referred to as "developed socialism."

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and vice versa. The posters often featured capitalist mustached

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This continued after the war in a campaign to remove supposed "

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History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)

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Coste, Brutus (January 1950). "Propaganda to Eastern Europe".

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Stosunki polsko-białoruskie pod okupacją sowiecką (1939–1941)

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Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule

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During World War II, radio was used to propagandize Germany;

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directly and contained patriotic themes. It was termed the "

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that sprung up about him, the party exploited it during the

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Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders

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And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris

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And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris

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Many anti-German films in the Nazi era revolved about the

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A stamp featuring Pimenov's "Wedding on a Tomorrow Street"

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disinformation about the forensic examination of his body

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Much anti-religious efforts were dedicated to promoting

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included: Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization,

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During World War II, entire nationalities, such as the

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An important goal of Soviet propaganda was to create a

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They also tried to overthrow the evangelical image of

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The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West

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