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Propaganda presented him as Lenin's heir, exaggerating their relationship, until the Stalin cult 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 ...
Bolshevik Leon Trotsky (who led the leftist opposition to Stalin) referred to the lectures in The Permanent Revolution as "ideological garbage", "an official manual of narrow-mindedness" and "an anthology of enumerated banalities", [5] characterizing them as part of a propaganda campaign by Zinoviev, Bukharin, and Kamenev.
As Stalin consolidated his power through the late 1920s, Soviet propaganda largely shifted its focus to center on rapid industrialization and centralized, State control of the economy. [24] By the 1930s, the dissemination of pro-literacy propaganda had slowed throughout the Soviet Union.
The 2003 encyclopedia Propaganda and Mass Persuasion states that disinformation came from dezinformatsia, a term used by the Russian black propaganda unit known as Service A that referred to active measures. [3] The term was used in 1939, related to a "German Disinformation Service".
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.
The statue was a gift for Stalin's sixty-ninth birthday from Prague to commemorate "Mr. Stalin's personality, mostly from his ideological features". [23] After 5 years in the making, the massive 17,000-ton monument was finally revealed to the public which depicted Stalin, with one at the front of a group of proletarian workers. [24]
This propaganda stood in sharp contradiction with the anti-religious propaganda that had been produced in the 1920s that blamed the church for preaching unqualified patriotism in World War I. To a lesser degree, it also differed from the criticism of Christians who had fought for Russia in World War I but who would not take up arms for the USSR.
The KGB and Soviet Disinformation: An Insider's View is a 1983 non-fiction book by Lawrence Martin-Bittman (then known as Ladislav Bittman), a former intelligence officer specializing in disinformation for the Czech Intelligence Service and retired professor of disinformation at Boston University.