Propaganda & Authority
- Created by: Matthew Shields
- Created on: 21-05-14 11:00
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- Propaganda & Authority
- Suitable
- Totalitarian regime which typically use propaganda
- Continulation of 1920's propaganda
- Indoctrination seen as a positive
- Freedom of speech sacrificed for the good of society
- Centralised, one party state can control it well
- Monopoly on information used effectivly
- Illiterate peasants & none politically minded workers easily infleunced
- Effective in 1930's
- More people could 'speak Bolshevik'
- Understood & accepted message more
- Kolkhoz has a 'captive audience'
- Urbanisation also had good environment for indoctrination
- Kolkhoz has a 'captive audience'
- 96% of males by 1939 were literate
- Communist party newspaper 'The Truth' (Pravda)
- Mass depression in west & German Facism's rise
- Komsomol indoctrinated from a young age
- Nomenklatura often came from Komsomol
- More people could 'speak Bolshevik'
- Variety
- Komsomol (Up to 28)
- Schools had communist curriculum
- 70,000 libaries opened
- RAPP- writers assosiation, brought oppertunities for communist writers
- Agitprop- Propaganda theater
- Eisenstein-film maker
- Socialist Realist artwork inspired Soviet Utopia
- Seige Mentality
- Stakhanob & Young Pavlik
- 25,000ers & Shock Workers
- Balance
- No oppertunity to vote for alternative
- Can't measure thoughts
- Closed society with no freedom of speech
- Letters & jokes may be unrepresentative
- Strong Bourgouise & Orthodox Catholic heratige
- Only works with other successes
- Suitable
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