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The USSR is often regarded as the world's first propaganda state. Particularly under Stalin, politically charged rhetoric and imagery dominated the press, schools, and cultural forums from literature and cinema to the fine arts. Yet party propagandists were repeatedly frustrated in their efforts to promote a coherent sense of "Soviet" identity during the interwar years. This book investigates this failure to mobilize society along communist lines by probing the secrets of the party's ideological establishment and indoctrinational system. An exposé of systemic failure within Stalin's ideological establishment, Propaganda State in Crisis ultimately rewrites the history of Soviet indoctrination and mass mobilization between 1927 and 1941.
ISBN
9780300155372
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press
City
New Haven, CT
Keywords
Soviet Union, propaganda, indoctrination system
School
School of Arts and Sciences
Department
History
Disciplines
Marketing | Social Psychology | Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
Recommended Citation
Brandenberger, David. Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror Under Stalin, 1927-1941. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
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