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Film was used extensively by Stalin as a means of Propaganda.
However, film production in Russia decreased while he was in power – this was because the censorship process took so long – the films would be checked by censors, members of the Politburo and by Stalin himself both before and after production.
One way in which Stalin tried to encourage people to work and fight hard was to set up heroes for them to copy.
For example?
Posters were not used for elections – why not?
Instead they were used to raise the popularity of Stalin – or simply to make one of his projects look good.
Look at the posters which follow and try to think of:
The main style of art encouraged in Russia was ‘Socialist Realism’.
Why do you think that propaganda might have been crucially important to Stalin?
The Terror
The Five Year Plans
Collectivisation
The War Effort
What is Propaganda?
Stalin sought to make people feel good about the country by encouraging new architecture.
There are two newspapers you should know about:
A more independent publication
An official government newspaper
O great Stalin, O leader of the peoples
Thou who broughtest man to birth …
Thou who makest bloom the spring,
Thou who makest vibrate the musical chords …
Thou, splendour of my sun, O thou,
Sun reflected by millions of hearts
Stalin thought that writers were very dangerous. Why do you think this was?
Writers had to produce work glorifying Russia, the achievements of socialist workers and peasants or the Revolution.
Books such as 'How the Steel ws Tempered' by Nicolai Ostrovsky did just this.
If you used art to criticise the regime or to rebel against the system you could be shot or sent to a labour camp, as happened to Osip Mandelstam, the poet.