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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.
Among the early "monumental propaganda" monuments preserved in Saint Petersburg: the monument to the Russian revolutionary and theorist of Marxism Georgi Plekhanov , by I. Ginzburg (it is a double-figure composition: Plekhanov delivering a speech from a rostrum and a young worker next to the rostrum holding a banner) – the monument was cast ...
Before 1932, most Soviet propaganda posters showed Lenin and Stalin together. [7] This propaganda was embraced by Stalin, who made use of their relationship in speeches to the proletariat, stating Lenin was "the great teacher of the proletarians of all nations" and subsequently identifying himself with the proletarians by their kinship as ...
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 State Anthem of the Soviet Union was purged of references to Stalin, and so were the anthems of its republics. The Stalin-centric and World War II-era lines in the lyrics were effectively excised when an instrumental version replaced it. The Joseph Stalin Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland was renamed in 1956. Stalin Peak, the ...
Mosaic portraits of the former Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were removed from a water tower in Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv region, on Thursday, April 7, in response to Russia ...
Joseph Stalin introduced the concept of self-criticism in his 1924 work The Foundations of Leninism. [4] He would later expand this concept in his 1928 article "Against Vulgarising the Slogan of Self-Criticism". [5] Stalin wrote in 1928 [6] "I think, comrades, that self-criticism is as necessary to us as air or water. I think that without it ...