Control of the People Russia: Mass Media and Propaganda
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- Created on: 21-05-17 13:22
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- Mass Media and propaganda
- Newspapers
- November 1917 all non socialist papers banned, and by the early 1920s all non-bolshevik papers
- Printing press nationalised
- All journalists and writers were government employees and party members
- Had to be members of the Union of Soviet Journalists
- Glavit, the censorship office, had final say on all articles
- All journalists and writers were government employees and party members
- Had to be members of the Union of Soviet Journalists
- All journalists and writers were government employees and party members
- Pravda, Truth, paper of the party
- Circulation of 10.7 million by 1983
- Izvestiya, news, paper of the government
- Papers reported only on socialist victories and things like natural disasters were not reported
- Disaster at Kyshtym, 1957, nuclear tank exploded
- Magazines
- Mostly aimed at specififc groups of people but catered to wide range of interests
- Red Sport 1924
- Mostly aimed at specififc groups of people but catered to wide range of interests
- Radio
- The Spoken Newspaper of the Russian Telegraph Agency, 1921
- Broaadcasted on loudspeakers in public places
- Centralised by the Commissariat for Post and Telegraph
- Until 1964 there was only one radio station, then under Brezhnev it was expanded to 3
- In order to restrict access to foreign stations the goverment made radios with a limited reception range and jammed foreign broadcasts
- The Spoken Newspaper of the Russian Telegraph Agency, 1921
- Television
- Became a key method of control by the 1950s
- In 1950 there were 10,000 sets in the USSR and by 1958 there were 3 million, during the 1960s mass production meant most people had access
- Programmes focused on soviet achievements and culture, by 1985 there were 2 channels
- Became a key method of control by the 1950s
- Newspapers
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