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Propaganda and Censorship - Coggle Diagram
Propaganda and Censorship
'Official Culture'
'Totalitarian Dictatorship' - refers to the control over the citizens in the country & the information accessible to them by one dictator
The soviet union couldn't quite achieve their goals due to the differing groups including:
Communist party
NKVD secret police
The army
Officials running the economy & setting targets
Peasants who ran away from collective farms
Workers who tried to get factories run in ways that benefited them
Members of the middle class from tsarist times who tried to reinvent themselves in order to survive &
members of minority ethnic & religious group.
The aim was to make available information inline with the outlook of Stalin & the communist pary
Stalin while unable to fully control his country he managed to get pretty far. The instating of 'Official culture' was a part of this. This kept lessons in schools, posters & other notices in check of Stalin's ideas.
Government control of education
through reform of the educational curriculum and increased control of education Stalin tightened his grip on the new generation of Soviets
In the early 1930s there was an upheaval in education know as the 'Cultural Revolution'. It took place at the same time as the first Five-year Plans
Stidents were encouraged to denounce their teachers if they lacked enthusiasm for communism
there was an end to school discipline, exams and uniforms
Workers were encouraged in education more tha the middle-class backgrounds. Midlle-class young people were often thrown out of school which while allowing a new generation of workers to get an education also caused chaos
Socialist realism
In 1932 Stalin published a decree 'On the Reconstruction of Literary & Art Organisation' which put socialist realism at the centre of Stalin's attempt to control culture, making art more in line with the new rules.
In the 1920s a style of philosophy known as 'socialist realism' emerged becoming the most influential style of art by the 1930s.
Socialist realism art aim was to make the workers look like heroes with important work & the same applied to novels & music too.
Stalin called producers of Socialist realism 'engineers of the soul' meaning they would make a new person who would be enthusiastic about building a communist Soviet Union.
Media Censorship
Newspapers novels & poetry viewed or heard, were made to be positive to Stalin & the communist party, making them seem as alternatives for any other faith or beliefs.
Problems were always blamed on 'enemies of the people' in an attempt to make people accept the purges & that problems were not the governments fault
The Censorship didn't just cover new work but also erasing any writing or work done from people who had been purged. Going as far as to airbrush them out of photos to remove their existence from the present or the past.
In addition a singular body called Glavit controlled all publications of economic data, meaning there was no way to check if any of the data is truthful or not.