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The image of Stalin as a father was one way in which Soviet propagandists aimed to incorporate traditional religious symbols and language into the cult of personality; the title of "father" now first and foremost belonged to Stalin, as opposed to the Russian Orthodox priests. The cult of personality also adopted the Christian traditions of ...
Young Pioneers, with their slogan: "Prepare to fight for the cause of the Communist Party" An important goal of Soviet propaganda was to create a New Soviet man.Schools and Communist youth organizations such as the Young Pioneers and Komsomol served to remove children from the "petit-bourgeois" family and indoctrinate the next generation into the "collective way of life".
The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929–1953. ANU Press. ISBN 9781760460631. Windows on the War: Soviet Tass Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945. Art Institute of Chicago. 2011. ISBN 978-0-300-17023-8. Toland, Kristina (2021). Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters, 1917-1947. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Soviet secret-police and the mass-mobilization of the Communist Party served as Stalin's major tools in molding Soviet society. Stalin's methods in achieving his goals, which included party purges, ethnic cleansings, political repression of the general population, and forced collectivization, led to millions of deaths: in Gulag labor camps [1 ...
Stalin's regime forcibly purged society of what it saw as threats to itself and its brand of communism (so-called "enemies of the people"), which included political dissidents, non-Soviet nationalists, the bourgeoisie, better-off peasants ("kulaks"), [9] and those of the working class who demonstrated "counter-revolutionary" sympathies. [10]
The style of socialist realism began to dominate the Soviet artistic community starting when Stalin rose to power in 1930, and the government took a more active role in regulating art creation. [135] The AKhRR became more hierarchical and the association privileged realist style oil paintings , a field dominated by men, over posters and other ...
A tradition of including communist symbolism in socialist-style emblems and flags began with the flag of the Soviet Union and has since been taken up by a long line of socialist states. In Indonesia , Latvia , Lithuania and Ukraine , communist symbols are banned and displays in public for non-educational use are considered a criminal offense.
Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. [308] [309] Bowlt, J. E. (2002). Stalin as Isis and Ra: Socialist Realism and the Art of Design. The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, 24, 35–63. Bonnell, V. E. (1999). Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin.