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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>Meetings and lectures</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Meetings_and_lectures-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Art" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Art"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.7</span> <span>Art</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Art-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Newspapers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Newspapers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.8</span> <span>Newspapers</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Newspapers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Books" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Books"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.9</span> <span>Books</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Books-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Theatre" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Theatre"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.10</span> <span>Theatre</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Theatre-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Themes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Themes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Themes</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Themes-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Themes subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Themes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-New_man" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_man"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>New man</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_man-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Class_enemy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Class_enemy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Class enemy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Class_enemy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-New_society" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_society"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>New society</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_society-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Production" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Production"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.1</span> <span>Production</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Production-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mass_movement" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mass_movement"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Mass movement</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mass_movement-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Peace-loving" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Peace-loving"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Peace-loving</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Peace-loving-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Internationalism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Internationalism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Internationalism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Internationalism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personality_cult" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personality_cult"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>Personality cult</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Personality_cult-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Trotsky" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Trotsky"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.1</span> <span>Trotsky</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Trotsky-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Propaganda_of_extermination" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Propaganda_of_extermination"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8</span> <span>Propaganda of extermination</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Propaganda_of_extermination-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anti-religious" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anti-religious"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.9</span> <span>Anti-religious</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anti-religious-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anti-intellectualism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anti-intellectualism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.10</span> <span>Anti-intellectualism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anti-intellectualism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Plutocracies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Plutocracies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.11</span> <span>Plutocracies</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Plutocracies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anti-Tsarist" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anti-Tsarist"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.12</span> <span>Anti-Tsarist</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anti-Tsarist-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anti-Polish" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anti-Polish"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.13</span> <span>Anti-Polish</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anti-Polish-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spanish_war" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spanish_war"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.14</span> <span>Spanish war</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spanish_war-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-World_War_II" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#World_War_II"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.15</span> <span>World War II</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-World_War_II-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Pre-war_anti-Nazi_propaganda" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pre-war_anti-Nazi_propaganda"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.15.1</span> <span>Pre-war anti-Nazi propaganda</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pre-war_anti-Nazi_propaganda-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Molotov–Ribbentrop_pact" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Molotov–Ribbentrop_pact"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.15.2</span> <span>Molotov–Ribbentrop pact</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Molotov–Ribbentrop_pact-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anti-German" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anti-German"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.15.3</span> <span>Anti-German</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anti-German-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Germany_vs._Hitlerites" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Germany_vs._Hitlerites"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.15.4</span> <span>Germany vs. Hitlerites</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Germany_vs._Hitlerites-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anti-fascism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anti-fascism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.15.5</span> <span>Anti-fascism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anti-fascism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Patriotism/Nationalism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Patriotism/Nationalism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.15.6</span> <span>Patriotism/Nationalism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Patriotism/Nationalism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Utopia_and_space" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Utopia_and_space"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Utopia and space</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Utopia_and_space-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Soviet_propaganda_abroad" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Soviet_propaganda_abroad"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Soviet propaganda abroad</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Soviet_propaganda_abroad-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_v_Sov%C4%9Btsk%C3%A9m_svazu" title="Propaganda v Sovětském svazu – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Propaganda v Sovětském svazu" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_en_la_Uni%C3%B3n_Sovi%C3%A9tica" title="Propaganda en la Unión Soviética – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Propaganda en la Unión Soviética" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%94%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%A6%D5%B9%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%A8_%D4%BD%D5%8D%D5%80%D5%84-%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B4" title="Քարոզչությունը ԽՍՀՄ-ում – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Քարոզչությունը ԽՍՀՄ-ում" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_di_Uni_Soviet" title="Propaganda di Uni Soviet – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Propaganda di Uni Soviet" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_Unione_Sovietica" title="Propaganda in Unione Sovietica – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Propaganda in Unione Sovietica" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9E%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%92%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%90_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%91%E1%83%AD%E1%83%9D%E1%83%97%E1%83%90_%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%A8%E1%83%98%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A8%E1%83%98" title="პროპაგანდა საბჭოთა კავშირში – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="პროპაგანდა საბჭოთა კავშირში" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padomju_propaganda" title="Padomju propaganda – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Padomju propaganda" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" 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Sites</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Symbols</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Flag of the Soviet Union">Flag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Coat of arms of the Soviet Union">Coat of arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_anthem_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="National anthem of the Soviet Union">National anthem</a></li> <li>Cultural icons</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/16px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/24px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/32px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Soviet_Union" title="Portal:Soviet Union">Soviet Union portal</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Culture_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Template:Culture of the Soviet Union"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Culture_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Template talk:Culture of the Soviet Union"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Culture_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Culture of the Soviet Union"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Propaganda in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> was the practice of state-directed communication aimed at promoting <a href="/wiki/Class_conflict" title="Class conflict">class conflict</a>, <a href="/wiki/Proletarian_internationalism" title="Proletarian internationalism">proletarian internationalism</a>, the goals of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a>, and the party itself. </p><p>The main <a href="/wiki/Soviet_censorship" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet censorship">Soviet censorship</a> body, <a href="/wiki/Glavlit" class="mw-redirect" title="Glavlit">Glavlit</a>, was employed not only to eliminate any undesirable printed materials but also "to ensure that the correct ideological spin was put on every published item."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the death of <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, punitive measures were replaced by <a href="/wiki/Punitive_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union">punitive psychiatry</a>, prison, denial of work, and loss of citizenship. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Theory_of_propaganda">Theory of propaganda</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Theory of propaganda"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to historian <a href="/wiki/Peter_Kenez" title="Peter Kenez">Peter Kenez</a>, "the Russian socialists have contributed nothing to the theoretical discussion of the techniques of mass persuasion. ... The <a href="/wiki/Bolsheviks" title="Bolsheviks">Bolsheviks</a> never looked for and did not find devilishly clever methods to influence people's minds, to brainwash them." Kenez says this lack of interest "followed from their notion of propaganda. They thought of propaganda as part of education."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a study published in 1958, business administration professor Raymond Bauer concluded: "Ironically, psychology and the other social sciences have been employed <i>least</i> in the Soviet Union for precisely those purposes for which Americans popularly think psychology would be used in a totalitarian state—political propaganda and the control of human behavior."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Schools_and_youth_organizations">Schools and youth organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Schools and youth organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Education_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Education in the Soviet Union">Education in the Soviet Union</a></div><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1961_CPA_2586_stamp_(International_Children%27s_Day._Young_Pioneers_with_toys_and_pets).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/The_Soviet_Union_1961_CPA_2586_stamp_%28International_Children%27s_Day._Young_Pioneers_with_toys_and_pets%29.jpg/220px-The_Soviet_Union_1961_CPA_2586_stamp_%28International_Children%27s_Day._Young_Pioneers_with_toys_and_pets%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="310" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/The_Soviet_Union_1961_CPA_2586_stamp_%28International_Children%27s_Day._Young_Pioneers_with_toys_and_pets%29.jpg/330px-The_Soviet_Union_1961_CPA_2586_stamp_%28International_Children%27s_Day._Young_Pioneers_with_toys_and_pets%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/The_Soviet_Union_1961_CPA_2586_stamp_%28International_Children%27s_Day._Young_Pioneers_with_toys_and_pets%29.jpg/440px-The_Soviet_Union_1961_CPA_2586_stamp_%28International_Children%27s_Day._Young_Pioneers_with_toys_and_pets%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="723" data-file-height="1018" /></a><figcaption>Young Pioneers, with their slogan: "Prepare to fight for the cause of the Communist Party"</figcaption></figure> <p>An important goal of Soviet propaganda was to create a <a href="/wiki/New_Soviet_man" title="New Soviet man">New Soviet man</a>. Schools and Communist youth organizations such as the <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_All-Union_Pioneer_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization">Young Pioneers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Komsomol" title="Komsomol">Komsomol</a> served to remove children from the "<a href="/wiki/Petit-bourgeois" class="mw-redirect" title="Petit-bourgeois">petit-bourgeois</a>" family and <a href="/wiki/Indoctrination" title="Indoctrination">indoctrinate</a> the next generation into the "<a href="/wiki/Collective" title="Collective">collective</a> way of life". The idea that the upbringing of children was the concern of their parents was explicitly rejected.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One schooling theorist stated: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>We must make the young into a generation of Communists. Children, like soft wax, are very malleable and they should be moulded into good Communists... We must rescue children from the harmful influence of the family... We must nationalize them. From the earliest days of their little lives, they must find themselves under the beneficent influence of Communist schools... To oblige the mother to give her child to the Soviet state – that is our task.<sup id="cite_ref-Figes_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Figes-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Those born after the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Russian Revolution</a> were explicitly told that they were to build a utopia of brotherhood and justice, and to not be like their parents, but completely Red.<sup id="cite_ref-way356_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-way356-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Lenin's corners", "political shrines for the display of propaganda about the god-like founder of the Soviet state", were established in all schools.<sup id="cite_ref-Figes_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Figes-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Schools conducted marches, songs, and pledges of allegiance to Soviet leadership. One of the purposes was to instill in children the idea that they are involved in the <a href="/wiki/World_revolution" title="World revolution">world revolution</a>, which is more important than any family ties. <a href="/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov" title="Pavlik Morozov">Pavlik Morozov</a>, who denounced his father to the secret police <a href="/wiki/NKVD" title="NKVD">NKVD</a>, was promoted as a great positive example despite its fabrication.<sup id="cite_ref-Figes_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Figes-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Teachers in economic and social sciences were particularly responsible for inculcating "unshakable" <a href="/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist–Leninist">Marxist–Leninist</a> views.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All teachers were prone to strictly follow the plan for educating children approved by the top for reasons of safety, which could cause serious problems dealing with social events that, having just happened, were not included in the plan.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Children of "socially alien" elements were often the target of abuse or expelled, in the name of <a href="/wiki/Class_struggle" class="mw-redirect" title="Class struggle">class struggle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Early in the regime, many teachers were drawn into Soviet plans for schooling because of a passion for literacy and numeracy, which the Soviets were attempting to spread.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_All-Union_Pioneer_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization">Young Pioneers</a> were an important factor in the indoctrination of children.<sup id="cite_ref-Andrei_Sokolov_p374_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Andrei_Sokolov_p374-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were taught to be truthful and uncompromising and to fight the enemies of socialism.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the 1930s, this indoctrination completely dominated the Young Pioneers.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio">Radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Radio_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Radio in the Soviet Union">Radio in the Soviet Union</a></div> <p>The radio was put to good use, especially to reach the illiterate; <a href="/wiki/Radio_receiver" title="Radio receiver">radio receivers</a> were put in communal locations, where the peasants would have to come to hear the news, such as changes to <a href="/wiki/Rationing_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Rationing in the Soviet Union">rationing</a>, and received propaganda broadcasts with it; some of these locations were also used for posters.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes212_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes212-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During World War II, radio was used to propagandize Germany; <a href="/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union">German POWs</a> would be brought on to speak and assure their relatives they were alive, with propaganda being inserted between the announcement that a soldier would speak and when he actually did, in the time allowed for his family to gather.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes224_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes224-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Posters">Posters</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Posters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%A7%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8B_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C_%E2%80%94_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C._%D0%A7%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8B_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C_%E2%80%94_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/%D0%A7%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8B_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C_%E2%80%94_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C._%D0%A7%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8B_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C_%E2%80%94_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="305" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/%D0%A7%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8B_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C_%E2%80%94_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C._%D0%A7%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8B_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C_%E2%80%94_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/%D0%A7%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8B_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C_%E2%80%94_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C._%D0%A7%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8B_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C_%E2%80%94_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2738" data-file-height="3793" /></a><figcaption>"To have more, we must produce more. To produce more, we must know more"</figcaption></figure> <p>Wall posters were widely used in the early days, often depicting the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a>'s triumphs for the benefit of the illiterate.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes212_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes212-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout the 1920s, this was continued.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This continued in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, still for the benefit of the less literate, with bold, simple designs.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cinema">Cinema</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Cinema"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Cinema of the Soviet Union">Cinema of the Soviet Union</a></div> <p>Films were heavily propagandist, although they were pioneers in the documentary field (<a href="/wiki/Roman_Karmen" title="Roman Karmen">Roman Karmen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dziga_Vertov" title="Dziga Vertov">Dziga Vertov</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes212_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes212-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When war appeared inevitable, dramas, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_(film)" title="Alexander Nevsky (film)">Alexander Nevsky</a></i> (1938) were written to prepare the population; these were withdrawn after the <a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a>, but returned to circulation after the war began.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes214_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes214-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Films were shown in theaters and from <a href="/wiki/Agit-train" title="Agit-train">propaganda trains</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the war <a href="/wiki/Newsreel" title="Newsreel">newsreels</a> were shown in <a href="/wiki/Metro_station" title="Metro station">subway stations</a> so that the poor were not excluded by an inability to pay.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes219_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes219-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Films were also shot with stories of partisan activity, and of the suffering inflicted by the Nazis, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Girl_No._217" title="Girl No. 217">Girl No. 217</a></i>, depicting a Russian girl enslaved by an inhuman German family.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes219_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes219-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Propaganda_train">Propaganda train</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Propaganda train"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Agit-train" title="Agit-train">Agit-train</a></div> <p>An institution during World War II was the propaganda train, fitted with presses and portable cinemas, staffed with lecturers.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes219_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes219-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Civil War</a> the Soviets sent out both "agitation trains" (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">агитпоезд</span>) and "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Agitation_steamboats&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Agitation steamboats (page does not exist)">agitation steamboats</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4" class="extiw" title="ru:Агитпароход">ru</a>]</span>" (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">агитпароход</span>) to inform, entertain, and propagandize.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Meetings_and_lectures">Meetings and lectures</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Meetings and lectures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Meetings with speakers were also used. Despite their dullness, many people found they created solidarity, and made them feel important and that they were being kept up to date on news.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lectures were habitually used to instruct in the proper way of every corner of life.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin's</a> lectures on <a href="/wiki/Leninism" title="Leninism">Leninism</a> were instrumental in establishing that the Party was the cornerstone of the <a href="/wiki/October_Revolution" title="October Revolution">October Revolution</a>, a policy <a href="/wiki/Lenin" class="mw-redirect" title="Lenin">Lenin</a> acted on but did not write of theoretically.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Art">Art</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_6017_stamp_(14th_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._1st_issue._%27Worker_and_Kolkhoz_Woman%27,_sculpture_by_Vera_Mukhina_(1889-1953))_1200dpi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_6017_stamp_%2814th_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._1st_issue._%27Worker_and_Kolkhoz_Woman%27%2C_sculpture_by_Vera_Mukhina_%281889-1953%29%29_1200dpi.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="305" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_6017_stamp_%2814th_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._1st_issue._%27Worker_and_Kolkhoz_Woman%27%2C_sculpture_by_Vera_Mukhina_%281889-1953%29%29_1200dpi.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/The_Soviet_Union_1988_CPA_6017_stamp_%2814th_standard_issue_of_Soviet_Union._1st_issue._%27Worker_and_Kolkhoz_Woman%27%2C_sculpture_by_Vera_Mukhina_%281889-1953%29%29_1200dpi.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="909" data-file-height="1262" /></a><figcaption><i>Worker and Kolkhoz Woman</i> commemorated in a stamp</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Socialist_realism" title="Socialist realism">Socialist realism</a></div> <p>Art, whether literature, visual art, or performing art, was used for the purpose of propaganda.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Furthermore, it should show one clear and unambiguous meaning.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Long before Stalin imposed complete restraint, a cultural bureaucracy was growing up that regarded art's highest form and purpose as propaganda and began to restrain it to fit that role.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cultural activities were constrained by censorship and a monopoly of cultural institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-pipes292_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pipes292-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Imagery frequently drew on <a href="/wiki/Heroic_realism" title="Heroic realism">heroic realism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-design_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-design-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Soviet pavilion for the <a href="/wiki/Exposition_Internationale_des_Arts_et_Techniques_dans_la_Vie_Moderne" title="Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne">Paris World Fair</a> was surmounted by <a href="/wiki/Vera_Mukhina" title="Vera Mukhina">Vera Mukhina</a>'s a monumental sculpture, <i><a href="/wiki/Worker_and_Kolkhoz_Woman" title="Worker and Kolkhoz Woman">Worker and Kolkhoz Woman</a></i>, in heroic mold.<sup id="cite_ref-overy260_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overy260-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This reflected a call for heroic and romantic art, which reflected the ideal rather than the realistic.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Art was filled with health and happiness; paintings teemed with busy industrial and agricultural scenes, and sculptures depicted workers, sentries, and schoolchildren.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1937, the Industry of Socialism was intended as a major exhibit of socialist art, but difficulties with pain and the problem of "<a href="/wiki/Enemies_of_the_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Enemies of the people">enemies of the people</a>" appearing in scene required reworking, and sixteen months later, the censors finally approved enough for an exhibition.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Newspapers">Newspapers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Newspapers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1917, coming out of underground movements, the Soviets prepared to begin publishing <i><a href="/wiki/Pravda" title="Pravda">Pravda</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The very first law the Soviets passed on assuming power was to suppress newspapers that opposed them.<sup id="cite_ref-pipes292_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pipes292-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This had to be repealed and replaced with a milder measure,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but by 1918, Lenin had liquidated the independent press, including journals stemming from the 18th century.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1930 to 1941, as well as briefly in 1949, the propaganda journal <i><a href="/wiki/USSR_in_Construction" title="USSR in Construction">USSR in Construction</a></i> was circulated. It was published in <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>, and, from 1938, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>. The self-proclaimed purpose of the magazine was to "reflect in photography the whole scope and variety of the construction work now going on the USSR".<sup id="cite_ref-library2.usask.ca_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-library2.usask.ca-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The issues were aimed primarily at an international audience, especially Western left-wing intellectuals and businessmen, and were quite popular during its early publications, with subscribers including <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Galsworthy" title="John Galsworthy">John Galsworthy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Romain_Rolland" title="Romain Rolland">Romain Rolland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-library2.usask.ca_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-library2.usask.ca-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Illiteracy was regarded as a grave danger, excluding the illiterate from political discussion.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In part this was because the people could not be reached by Party journals.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Literature_in_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Literature in the Soviet Union">Literature in the Soviet Union</a></div> <p>Immediately after the revolution, books were treated with less severity than newspapers, but the nationalizing of <a href="/wiki/Printing_press" title="Printing press">printing presses</a> and <a href="/wiki/Publishing_houses_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Publishing houses in the Soviet Union">publishing houses</a> brought them under control.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinist</a> era, <a href="/wiki/Library" title="Library">libraries</a> were purged, sometimes so extremely that works by Lenin were removed.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1922, the deportation of writers and scholars warned that no deviation was permitted, and pre-publication censorship was reinstated.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to a lack of Bolshevist authors, many "fellow travelers" were tolerated, but money only came as long as they toe the party line.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the Stalinist <a href="/wiki/Great_Purge" title="Great Purge">Great Purges</a>, textbooks were often so frequently revised that students had to do without them.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theatre">Theatre</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The revolutionary theater was used to inspire support for the regime and hatred of its enemies, particularly <a href="/wiki/Agitprop_theater" class="mw-redirect" title="Agitprop theater">agitprop theater</a>, noted for its cardboard characters of perfect virtue and complete evil, and its coarse ridicule.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Petrushka" title="Petrushka">Petrushka</a> was a popular figure, often used to defend rich peasants and attack <a href="/wiki/Kulak" title="Kulak">kulaks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Themes">Themes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_man">New man</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: New man"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/New_Soviet_Man" class="mw-redirect" title="New Soviet Man">New Soviet Man</a></div> <p>Many Soviet works depicted the development of a "positive hero" as requiring intellectualism and hard discipline.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was not driven by crude impulses of nature but by conscious self-mastery.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The selfless new man was willing to sacrifice not only his life but his self-respect and his sensitivity for the good of others.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Equality and sacrifice were touted as the ideal appropriate for the "socialist way of life."<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Work required exertion and austerity, to show the new man triumphing over his base instincts.<sup id="cite_ref-R._Myers,_p_86_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-R._Myers,_p_86-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Alexey_Stakhanov" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexey Stakhanov">Alexey Stakhanov</a>'s record-breaking day in mining coal caused him to be set forth as the exemplar of the "new man" and to inspire <a href="/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement" title="Stakhanovite movement">Stakhanovite movements</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The movement inspired much pressure to increase production, on both workers and managers, with critics labeled "<a href="/wiki/Wrecking_(Soviet_Union)" title="Wrecking (Soviet Union)">wreckers</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This reflected a change from early days, with emphasis on the "little man" among the anonymous labors, to favoring the "hero of labor" in the end of the <a href="/wiki/First_five-year_plan_(Soviet_Union)" title="First five-year plan (Soviet Union)">First Five-Year Plan</a>, with writers explicitly told to produce heroization.<sup id="cite_ref-overy259_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overy259-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While these heroes had to stem from the people, they were set apart by their heroic deeds.<sup id="cite_ref-overy259_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overy259-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stakhanov himself was well suited for this role, not only a worker but for his good looks like many poster hero and as a family man.<sup id="cite_ref-overy259_55-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overy259-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The hardships of the First Five-Year Plan were put forth in romanticized accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1937–38, young heroes who accomplished great feats appeared on the front page of <i>Pravda</i> more often than Stalin himself.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later, during the purges, claims were made that criminals had been "reforged" by their work on the <a href="/wiki/White_Sea%E2%80%93Baltic_Canal" title="White Sea–Baltic Canal">White Sea/Baltic Canal</a>; salvation through labor appeared in <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Pogodin" title="Nikolai Pogodin">Nikolai Pogodin</a>'s <i>The Aristocrats</i> as well as many articles.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This could also be a new woman; <i>Pravda</i> described the Soviet woman as someone who had and could never have existed before.<sup id="cite_ref-overy259_55-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overy259-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Female <a href="/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement" title="Stakhanovite movement">Stakhanovites</a> were rarer than male, but a quarter of all trade-union women were designated as "norm-breaking."<sup id="cite_ref-overy260_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overy260-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the Paris World Fair, <a href="/wiki/Vera_Mukhina" title="Vera Mukhina">Vera Mukhina</a> depicted a monumental sculpture, <i><a href="/wiki/Worker_and_Kolkhoz_Woman" title="Worker and Kolkhoz Woman">Worker and Kolkhoz Woman</a></i>, dressed in work clothing, pressing forward with his hammer and her sickle crossed.<sup id="cite_ref-overy260_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overy260-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pro-natalist policies encouraging women to have many children were justified by the selfishness inherent in limiting the next generation of "new men."<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Mother-heroines" received medals for ten or more children.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stakhanovites were also used as propaganda figures so heavily that some workers complained that they were skipping work.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The fabricated murder of <a href="/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov" title="Pavlik Morozov">Pavlik Morozov</a> was widely exploited in propaganda to urge on children the duty of informing on even their parents to the new state.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Class_enemy">Class enemy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Class enemy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Enemy_of_the_People" class="mw-redirect" title="Enemy of the People">Enemy of the People</a></div> <p>The class enemy was a pervasive feature of Soviet propaganda.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Civil War</a>, the newly formed army moved to massacre large numbers of <a href="/wiki/Kulak" title="Kulak">kulaks</a> and otherwise promulgate a short lived "<a href="/wiki/Red_Terror" title="Red Terror">reign of terror</a>" to terrify the masses into obedience.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lenin proclaimed that they were exterminating the <a href="/wiki/Bourgeoisie" title="Bourgeoisie">bourgeoisie</a> as a class, a position reinforced by the many actions against landlords, well-off peasants, banks, factories, and private shops.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stalin warned, often, that with the struggle to build a socialist society, the class struggle would sharpen as class enemies grew more desperate.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the Stalinist era, all opposition leaders were routinely described as traitors and agents of foreign, <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialist</a> powers.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Five-Year Plan intensified the class struggle with many attacks on <i>kulaks</i>, and when it was found that many peasant opponents were not rich enough to qualify, they were declared "sub-kulaks."<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Kulaks and other class-alien enemies" were often cited as the reason for failures on collective farms.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout the First and Second Five-Year Plans, kulaks, wreckers, saboteurs and nationalists were attacked, leading up to the <a href="/wiki/Great_Purge" title="Great Purge">Great Terror</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Those who profited from public property were "enemies of the people."<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the late 1930s, all "enemies" were lumped together in art as supporters of historical idiocy.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Newspapers reported even on the trial of children as young as ten for counterrevolutionary and fascist behavior.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Holodomor" title="Holodomor">Holodomor</a>, the starving peasants were denounced as saboteurs, all the more dangerous in that their gentle and inoffensive appearance made them appear innocent; the deaths were only proof that peasants hated socialism so much they were willing to sacrifice their families and risk their lives to fight it.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stalin, denouncing <a href="/wiki/White_movement" title="White movement">White</a> counter-revolutionaries, <a href="/wiki/Trotskyism" title="Trotskyism">Trotskyists</a>, wreckers, and others, particularly aimed his attention at the Communist <a href="/wiki/Old_Bolshevik" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Bolshevik">old guard</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The very improbability of the charges was cited as evidence, since more plausible charges could have been invented.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>These enemies were rounded up for the <a href="/wiki/Gulag" title="Gulag">gulags</a>, which propaganda proclaimed to be "<a href="/wiki/Labor_camp" title="Labor camp">corrective labor camps</a>" to such an extent that even people who saw the starvation and slave labor believed the propaganda rather than their eyes.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During World War II, entire nationalities, such as the <a href="/wiki/Volga_German" class="mw-redirect" title="Volga German">Volga Germans</a>, were branded traitors.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stalin himself informed <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein" title="Sergei Eisenstein">Sergei Eisenstein</a> that his film <i><a href="/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_(1944_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivan the Terrible (1944 film)">Ivan the Terrible</a></i> was flawed because it did not show the necessity of terror in Ivan's persecution of the nobility.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_society">New society</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: New society"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Propaganda can start a large movement or revolution, but only if the masses rally behind one another to make the images produced by propaganda a reality. Good propaganda must instill hope, faith, and certainty. It must bring solidarity among the population. It must stave off demoralization, hopelessness, and resignation.<sup id="cite_ref-Coste_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Coste-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A common theme was the creation of a new, utopian society, depicted in posters and newsreels, which inspired an enthusiasm in many people.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much propaganda was dedicated to a new community, as exemplified in the use of "<a href="/wiki/Comrade" title="Comrade">comrade</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This new society was to be <a href="/wiki/Classless_society" title="Classless society">classless</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Distinctions were to be based on function, not class, and all possessed the equal duty to work.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 1930s discussion of the new <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Constitution of the Soviet Union">constitution</a>, one speaker proclaimed that there were, in fact, no classes in the USSR,<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and newspapers effused over how the dreams of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_working_class" title="Soviet working class">working class</a> were coming true for the luckiest people in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-way171_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-way171-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One admission that there were classes – workers, peasants, and working <a href="/wiki/Intelligentsia" title="Intelligentsia">intelligentsia</a> – dismissed it as unimportant, as these new classes had no need to conflict.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Military metaphors were used frequently for this creation, as in 1929, where the collectivization of agriculture was officially termed a "full-scale socialist offensive on all fronts."<sup id="cite_ref-way22_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-way22-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Second Five-Year Plan saw a slowdown of the Socialist Offensive, this against a propaganda background of trumpeting the USSR's triumphs on "the battlefield of building socialism."<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Stalinist times, this was often portrayed as a "great family", with Stalin as the great father.<sup id="cite_ref-way22_88-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-way22-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Happiness was mandatory; in a novel where a horse was described as moving "slowly", the censor objected, asking why it was not moving speedily, being happy like the rest of the collective farm workers.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Kohlkhoznye Rebiata</i> published bombastic reports from the collective farms of their children.<sup id="cite_ref-way258_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-way258-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When hot breakfasts were provided for schoolchildren, particularly in city schools, the program was announced with great fanfare.<sup id="cite_ref-way258_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-way258-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since communist society was the highest and most progressive form of society, it was ethically superior to all others, and "moral" and "immoral" were determined by whether things helped or hindered its development.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tsarist law was overtly abolished, and while judges could use it, they were to be guided by "revolutionary consciousness".<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under the pressure of the need for law, more and more was implemented; Stalin justified this in propaganda as the law would "wither away" best when its authority was raised to the highest, through its contradictions.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the draft of the new constitution led people to believe that private property would be returned and that workers could leave <a href="/wiki/Collective_farming" title="Collective farming">collective farms</a>, speakers were sent out to "clarify" the matter.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Production">Production</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Stalin bluntly declared the Bolshevists must close the Tsar-induced fifty- or a hundred-year gap with <a href="/wiki/Western_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Western countries">Western countries</a> in ten years, or "socialism would be destroyed".<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In support of the Five-Year Plan, he declared being an industrial laggard had caused Russia's historical defeats.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Newspapers reported <a href="/wiki/Overproduction" title="Overproduction">overproduction</a> of quotas, even though many had not occurred, and where they did, the goods were often shoddy.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1973_CPA_4264_mint.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/1973_CPA_4264_mint.jpg/200px-1973_CPA_4264_mint.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/1973_CPA_4264_mint.jpg/300px-1973_CPA_4264_mint.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/1973_CPA_4264_mint.jpg/400px-1973_CPA_4264_mint.jpg 2x" data-file-width="899" data-file-height="1245" /></a><figcaption>A stamp featuring Pimenov's "Wedding on a Tomorrow Street"</figcaption></figure> <p>During the 1930s, the development of the USSR was just about the only theme of art, literature and film.<sup id="cite_ref-way208_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-way208-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The heroes of <a href="/wiki/Arctic_exploration" title="Arctic exploration">Arctic exploration</a> were glorified.<sup id="cite_ref-way208_99-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-way208-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution was honored with a five volume work glorifying the accomplishments of socialism and (in the last volume) "scientifically based fantasies" of the future, raising such questions as whether the whole world or only Europe would be socialist in twenty years.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Even while a majority of the population was still rural, the USSR was proclaimed "a mighty industrial power."<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/USSR_in_Construction" title="USSR in Construction">USSR in Construction</a></i> glorified the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Canal" title="Moscow Canal">Moscow-Volga Canal</a>, with only the briefest mention of the slave labor that had built it.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1939, a rationing plan was considered but not implemented because it would undermine the propaganda of improving care for the people, whose lives grew better and more cheerful every year.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During World War II, the slogans were altered from overcoming backwardness to overcoming the "fascist beast" but continued focus on production.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The slogan proclaimed "Everything for the Front!"<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Teams of Young Communists were used as shocktroops to shame workers into higher production as well as spread socialist propaganda.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1950s, Khrushchev repeatedly boasted that the USSR would soon surpass the West in material well-being.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other Soviet officials agreed that the USSR would soon show its superiority because capitalism was like a dead herring – shining as it rotted.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Subsequently, the USSR was referred to as "developed socialism."<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mass_movement">Mass movement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Mass movement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This led to a great emphasis on education.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first post-mortem attack on Stalin was the publication of articles in <i>Pravda</i> proclaiming that the masses made history and the error of a "cult of the individual."<sup id="cite_ref-service332_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-service332-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peace-loving">Peace-loving</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Peace-loving"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Central_Asia_Hammond_Slides_48.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Central_Asia_Hammond_Slides_48.jpg/250px-Central_Asia_Hammond_Slides_48.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Central_Asia_Hammond_Slides_48.jpg/375px-Central_Asia_Hammond_Slides_48.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Central_Asia_Hammond_Slides_48.jpg/500px-Central_Asia_Hammond_Slides_48.jpg 2x" data-file-width="10200" data-file-height="6599" /></a><figcaption>"We are for peace" on a poster in <a href="/wiki/Tashkent" title="Tashkent">Tashkent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uzbek_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Uzbek SSR">Uzbek SSR</a>, 1964.</figcaption></figure> <p>A common motif in propaganda was that the Soviet Union was peace-loving.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes216_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes216-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many warnings were made of the necessity of keeping out of any imperialistic war, as the breakdown of capitalism would make capitalist countries more desperate.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a> was presented as a peace measure.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes217_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes217-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Internationalism">Internationalism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Internationalism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Communist_International" title="Communist International">Communist International</a></div> <p>Even before the Bolshevists seized power, Lenin proclaimed in speeches that the Revolution was the vanguard of a worldwide revolution, both international and socialist.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The workers were informed they were the vanguard of world socialism; the slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" was constantly repeated.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lenin founded the organization <a href="/wiki/Comintern" class="mw-redirect" title="Comintern">Comintern</a> to propagate Communism internationally.<sup id="cite_ref-service270_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-service270-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stalin proceeded to use it to promote Communism throughout the world for the benefit of the USSR.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When this topic was a difficulty dealing with the <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allies</a> in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, Comintern was dissolved.<sup id="cite_ref-service270_118-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-service270-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, "<a href="/wiki/The_Internationale" title="The Internationale">The Internationale</a>" was dropped as the national anthem in favor of the "<a href="/wiki/Hymn_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Hymn of the Soviet Union">Hymn of the Soviet Union</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Japanese_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union">Japanese prisoners of war</a> were intensively propagandized before their release in 1949, to act as Soviet agents.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Personality_cult">Personality cult</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Personality cult"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin%27s_cult_of_personality" title="Joseph Stalin's cult of personality">Joseph Stalin's cult of personality</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cult_of_personality" title="Cult of personality">Cult of personality</a>, and <a href="/wiki/De-Leninization" title="De-Leninization">De-Leninization</a></div> <p>While Lenin was uncomfortable with the <a href="/wiki/Personality_cult" class="mw-redirect" title="Personality cult">personality cult</a> that sprung up about him, the party exploited it during the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a> and officially enshrined it after his death.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As early as 1918, a biography of Lenin was written, and busts were produced.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With his death, his <a href="/wiki/Lenin%27s_Mausoleum" title="Lenin's Mausoleum">embalmed body was displayed</a> (to imitate <a href="/wiki/Incorruptibility" title="Incorruptibility">beliefs that the bodies of saints did not decay</a>), and picture books of his life were produced in mass quantities.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stalin presented himself as a simple man of the people, but distinct from everyday politics by his unique role as leader.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His clothing was carefully selected to cement this image.<sup id="cite_ref-Robert_Service_p_198_126-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Robert_Service_p_198-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Propaganda presented him as Lenin's heir, exaggerating their relationship, until the <a href="/wiki/Stalin_cult" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalin cult">Stalin cult</a> 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 book Stalin was depicted reading.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This occurred despite the historical accounts describing Stalin as insignificant, or even a "gray blur", in the early Revolution.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the late 1920s until it was debunked in the 1960s, he was presented as the chief military leader of the civil war.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Volgograd" title="Volgograd">Stalingrad</a> was renamed for him on the claim that he had single-handedly, and against orders, saved it in the civil war.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He often figured as the great father of the "great family" that was the new Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-way22_88-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-way22-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Regulations on how exactly to portray Stalin's image and write of his life were carefully promulgated.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Inconvenient facts, such as his having wanted to cooperate with the Tsarist government on his return for exile, were purged from his biography.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His work for the Soviet Union was praised in paeans to the "light in the Kremlin window."<sup id="cite_ref-R._Myers,_p_86_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-R._Myers,_p_86-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a>, <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Engels</a>, Lenin, and above all Stalin appeared frequently in art.<sup id="cite_ref-design_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-design-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Discussions of the proposed constitution in the 1930s included effusive thanks to "Comrade Stalin."<sup id="cite_ref-way171_86-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-way171-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Engineering projects such as canals were described as having been decreed personally by Stalin.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_All-Union_Pioneer_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization">Young Pioneers</a> were enjoined to struggle for "the cause of Lenin and Stalin".<sup id="cite_ref-Andrei_Sokolov_p374_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Andrei_Sokolov_p374-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the purges, he increased his appearances in public, having his photograph taken with children, <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Air_Forces" title="Soviet Air Forces">airmen</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement" title="Stakhanovite movement">Stakhanovites</a>, being hailed as the source of the "happy life," and according to <i>Pravda</i>, riding the subway with common workers.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The propaganda was effectual.<sup id="cite_ref-brendon489_135-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brendon489-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many young people hard at work at construction idolized Stalin.<sup id="cite_ref-Robert_Service_p_198_126-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Robert_Service_p_198-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many people chose to believe that the charges made at the purges were true rather than believing that Stalin had betrayed the revolution.<sup id="cite_ref-brendon489_135-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brendon489-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, this personality cult was certainly instrumental in inspiring a deep level of commitment from the masses of the Soviet Union, whether on the battlefield or in industrial production.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stalin made a fleeting visit to the front so that propagandists could claim that he had risked his life with the frontline soldiers.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cult was, however, toned down until approaching victory was near.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As it became clear that the Soviet Union would eventually win the war, Stalin ensured that propaganda always mentioned his leadership of the war; the victorious generals were sidelined and never allowed to develop into political rivals. </p><p>Soon after his death, attacks, first veiled and then open, were made on the "cult of the individual" arguing that history was made by the masses.<sup id="cite_ref-service332_111-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-service332-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a>, though leading the attacks on the cult, nevertheless sought out publicity, and his photograph frequently appeared in the newspapers.<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Trotsky">Trotsky</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Trotsky"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As Stalin drew power to himself, <a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a> was pictured in an anti-personality cult. It began with the assertion that he had not joined the Bolshevists until late, after the planning of the October Revolution was done.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Historical_negationism" title="Historical negationism">Historical falsification</a> of political events such as the October Revolution and the Brest-Litovsk Treaty became a distinctive element of Stalin's regime. A notable example is the 1938 publication, <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union_(Bolsheviks):_Short_Course" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course"><i>History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)</i></a>,<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in which the history of the governing party was significantly altered and revised including the importance of the leading figures during the Bolshevik revolution. Retrospectively, Lenin's primary associates such as Zinoviev, Trotsky, Radek and Bukharin were presented as "vacillating", "opportunists" and "foreign spies" whereas Stalin is depicted as the chief discipline during this revolution. However, in reality, Stalin was considered a relatively unknown figure with secondary importance at the time of the event.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his book, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Stalin_School_of_Falsification" title="The Stalin School of Falsification">The Stalin School of Falsification</a></i>, Leon Trotsky cited a range of historical documents such as party speeches, meeting <a href="/wiki/Minutes" title="Minutes">minutes</a>, and suppressed texts such as <a href="/wiki/Lenin%27s_Testament" title="Lenin's Testament">Lenin's Testament</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He argued that the Stalinist faction routinely distorted political events, forged a theoretical basis for irreconcilable concepts such as the notion of "Socialism in One Country" and misrepresented the views of opponents through an array of employed historians alongside economists to justify policy manoeuvering and safeguarding its own set of material interests.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Propaganda_of_extermination">Propaganda of extermination</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Propaganda of extermination"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some historians believe that an important goal of Soviet propaganda was "to justify <a href="/wiki/Political_repression" title="Political repression">political repressions</a> of entire <a href="/wiki/Social_group" title="Social group">social groups</a> which <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxism</a> considered antagonistic to the class of <a href="/wiki/Proletariat" title="Proletariat">proletariat</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-Black_145-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Black-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (March 2023)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> as in <a href="/wiki/Decossackization" class="mw-redirect" title="Decossackization">decossackization</a> or <a href="/wiki/Dekulakization" title="Dekulakization">dekulakization</a> campaigns.<sup id="cite_ref-reflections_146-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reflections-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Figes_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Figes-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Richard_Pipes" title="Richard Pipes">Richard Pipes</a> wrote: "a major purpose of Soviet propaganda was arousing violent political emotions against the regime's enemies."<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The most effective means to achieve this objective "was the denial of the victim's humanity through the process of <a href="/wiki/Dehumanization" title="Dehumanization">dehumanization</a>", "the reduction of real or imaginary enemy to a zoological state".<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In particular, <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a> called to exterminate enemies "as harmful insects", "lice" and "bloodsuckers".<sup id="cite_ref-Black_145-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Black-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 750">: 750 </span></sup> </p><p>According to writer and propagandist <a href="/wiki/Maksim_Gorky" class="mw-redirect" title="Maksim Gorky">Maksim Gorky</a>, </p> <blockquote><p>Class hatred should be cultivated by an organic revulsion as far as the enemy is concerned. Enemies must be seen as inferior. I believe quite profoundly that the enemy is our inferior, and is a degenerate not only in the physical plane but also in the moral sense.<sup id="cite_ref-Black_145-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Black-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>State prosecutor <a href="/wiki/Andrey_Vyshinsky" title="Andrey Vyshinsky">Andrey Vyshinsky</a> frequently demonized <a href="/wiki/Enemy_of_the_people#Marxist–Leninist_states" title="Enemy of the people">"enemies"</a> during Stalin's <a href="/wiki/Show_trial" title="Show trial">show trials</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>Shoot these rabid dogs. Death to this gang who hide their ferocious teeth, their eagle claws, from the people! Down with that vulture <a href="/wiki/Trotsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Trotsky">Trotsky</a>, from whose mouth a bloody venom drips, putrefying the great ideals of Marxism!... Down with these abject animals! Let's put an end once and for all to these miserable hybrids of foxes and pigs, these stinking corpses! Let's exterminate the mad dogs of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a>, who want to tear to pieces the flower of our new Soviet nation! Let's push the bestial hatred they bear our leaders back down their own throats!</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anti-religious">Anti-religious</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Anti-religious"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early in the revolution, atheistic propaganda was pushed in an attempt to obliterate religion.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes214_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes214-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Regarding religion more as a class enemy, a cause of hate, than a contender for people's minds, the government abolished the prerogatives of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a> and targeted them with ridicule.<sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This included lurid anti-religious processions and newspaper articles that backfired badly, shocking the deeply religious population.<sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was stopped and replaced by lectures and other more intellectual methods.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes216_112-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes216-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Society_of_the_Godless" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of the Godless">Society of the Godless</a> organized for such purposes, and the magazines <i><a href="/wiki/Bezbozhnik_(magazine)" title="Bezbozhnik (magazine)">Bezbozhnik</a></i> (<i>The Godless</i>) and <i><a href="/wiki/Bezbozhnik_u_Stanka" title="Bezbozhnik u Stanka">Bezbozhnik u Stanka</a></i> (<i>The Godless in the Workplace</i>) promulgated atheistic propaganda.<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Atheistic education was regarded as a central task of Soviet schools.<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The attempt to liquidate illiteracy was hindered by attempts to combine it with atheistic education, which caused peasants to stay away and which was eventually reduced.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1929, all forms of religious education were banned as religious propaganda, and the right to anti-religious propaganda was explicitly affirmed, whereupon the League of the Godless became the League of the Militant Godless.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A "Godless Five-Year Plan" was proclaimed, purportedly at the instigation of the masses.<sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Christian virtues such as humility and meekness were ridiculed in the press, with self-discipline, loyalty to the party, confidence in the future, and hatred of class enemies being recommended instead.<sup id="cite_ref-Andrei_Sokolov_p75_157-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Andrei_Sokolov_p75-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Anti-religious propaganda in Russia led to a reduction in the public demonstrations of religion.<sup id="cite_ref-Powell1967_158-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Powell1967-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Much anti-religious efforts were dedicated to promoting <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> in its place.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the debunking of a <a href="/wiki/Miracle" title="Miracle">miracle</a> – a <a href="/wiki/Madonna_(art)" title="Madonna (art)">Madonna</a> weeping tears of blood, which was shown to be <a href="/wiki/Rust" title="Rust">rust</a> contaminating water by pouring multicolored waters into the statue – was offered to the watching peasants as proof of science, resulting in the crowd killing two of the scientists.<sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>They also tried to overthrow the evangelical image of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>. The literature of the USSR in the 1920s, following the tradition of the demythologization of Jesus, created in the works <a href="/wiki/David_Strauss" title="David Strauss">David Strauss</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Renan" title="Ernest Renan">Ernest Renan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Binet-Sangl%C3%A9" title="Charles Binet-Sanglé">Charles Binet-Sanglé</a>, put forward two main themes – <a href="/wiki/Mental_health_of_Jesus" title="Mental health of Jesus">Jesus' mental illness</a> and his deception. It was only at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s that the Soviet Union's propaganda won the <a href="/wiki/Christ_myth_theory" title="Christ myth theory">mythological option</a>, namely the denial of the existence of Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A "<a href="/wiki/Living_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Living Church">Living Church</a>" movement despised Russian Orthodoxy's hierarchy and preached that socialism was the modern form of Christianity; <a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Trotsky</a> urged their encouragement to split Orthodoxy.<sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During World War II, this effort was rolled back; <i>Pravda</i> capitalized the word "God" for the first time, as religious attendance was actually encouraged.<sup id="cite_ref-Overy68_163-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Overy68-163"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much of this was for foreign consumption, where it was widely disbelieved, with President <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> condemning both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as atheistic regimes which did not permit <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_thought" title="Freedom of thought">freedom of conscience</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This rollback may have occurred due to the ineffectiveness of the Soviets' anti-religious effort.<sup id="cite_ref-Powell1967_158-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Powell1967-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anti-intellectualism">Anti-intellectualism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Anti-intellectualism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Between campaigns against bourgeois culture and making the ideology of the Socialist Offensive intelligible to the masses with cliches and stereotypes, an <a href="/wiki/Anti-intellectualism" title="Anti-intellectualism">anti-intellectual</a> tone grew in propaganda.<sup id="cite_ref-Andrei_Sokolov_p75_157-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Andrei_Sokolov_p75-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Soviet leaders posed as common people, lacking interest in such matters as fine art and ballet, even as they selectively chose from <a href="/wiki/Working_class_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Working class culture">working class culture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plutocracies">Plutocracies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Plutocracies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1920s, much Soviet propaganda for the outside world was aimed at capitalist countries as plutocracies, and claiming that they intended to destroy the Soviet Union as the workers' paradise.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes216_112-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes216-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Capitalism, being responsible for the ills of the world, therefore was fundamentally immoral.<sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fascism was presented as a terroristic outburst of <a href="/wiki/Financial_capital" title="Financial capital">finance capital</a>, and drawing from the <i><a href="/wiki/Petit_bourgeoisie" class="mw-redirect" title="Petit bourgeoisie">petit bourgeoisie</a></i>, and the middling peasants, equivalent to kulaks, who were the losers in the historical process.<sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the early stages of World War II, it was overtly presented as a war between capitalists, which would weaken them and allow Communist triumph as long as the Soviet Union wisely stayed out.<sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Communist parties over the world were instructed to oppose the war as a clash between capitalist states.<sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-169"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After World War II, the United States of America was presented as a bastion of imperial oppression, with which non-violent competition would take place, as capitalism was in its last stages.<sup id="cite_ref-170" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-170"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anti-Tsarist">Anti-Tsarist</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Anti-Tsarist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Campaigns against the society of Imperial Russia continued well into the Soviet Union's history. One speaker recounted how men had had to serve for twenty-five years in the imperial army, to be heckled by an audience member that it did not matter, since they had had food and clothing.<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Children were informed that the "accursed past" had been left far behind them, they could become completely "Red".<sup id="cite_ref-way356_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-way356-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anti-Polish">Anti-Polish</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Anti-Polish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Poland-Soviet_Union_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Poland-Soviet Union relations">Poland-Soviet Union relations</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:293px;max-width:293px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:142px;max-width:142px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tsarstvo_kanchukiv.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Tsarstvo_kanchukiv.jpg/140px-Tsarstvo_kanchukiv.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Tsarstvo_kanchukiv.jpg/210px-Tsarstvo_kanchukiv.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Tsarstvo_kanchukiv.jpg/280px-Tsarstvo_kanchukiv.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="733" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Soviet soldier freeing Ukrainian peasants from Polish lordship, 1939. Note the Poles were characterised as mustached tormentors in jackboots</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:147px;max-width:147px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bolsheviks_to_the_end.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Bolsheviks_to_the_end.jpg/145px-Bolsheviks_to_the_end.jpg" decoding="async" width="145" height="204" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Bolsheviks_to_the_end.jpg/218px-Bolsheviks_to_the_end.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Bolsheviks_to_the_end.jpg/290px-Bolsheviks_to_the_end.jpg 2x" data-file-width="501" data-file-height="705" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Red Army soldier grabs the knife in the hand of an enemy dwarf in a Polish uniform, forcing the knife to drop. By Kriukov, Soviet Union, 1939, Poster collection, Hoover Archives</div></div></div></div></div> <p>The Soviet press showed little favor towards its neighboring states. <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> was a subject of this approach from the very beginning. In general, the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_press" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet press">Soviet press</a> portrayed <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Fascist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fascist">fascist</a> state, that belonged to the same club as <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Anti-Polish propaganda was heavily used in the <a href="/wiki/Polish-Soviet_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish-Soviet War">Polish-Soviet War</a>, when the Bolsheviks sought to subjugate that newly independent nation, in 1920 as well as during the 1939 <a href="/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland" title="Soviet invasion of Poland">Soviet invasion of Poland</a> and subsequent <a href="/wiki/Territories_of_Poland_annexed_by_the_Soviet_Union" title="Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union">annexation of Eastern Poland 1939–1941</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (see Fig 1) </p><p>Poland's <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalist</a> government and its chief of state, Marshal <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Pi%C5%82sudski" title="Józef Piłsudski">Józef Piłsudski</a>, were fierce anti-communists; all parties or groups affiliated with Communist activities were banned and its members sent to <a href="/wiki/Bereza_Kartuska_concentration_camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Bereza Kartuska concentration camp">Bereza Kartuska concentration camp</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kresy" title="Kresy">eastern Poland</a>. This potentially fueled Soviet propaganda against the <a href="/wiki/Second_Polish_Republic" title="Second Polish Republic">Polish state</a> and vice versa. The posters often featured capitalist mustached <a href="/wiki/Polish_people" title="Polish people">Poles</a> dressed as lords, barons, nobles or generals holding a whip over enslaved <a href="/wiki/Ukrainians_in_Poland" title="Ukrainians in Poland">Ukrainians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Belarusian_minority_in_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="Belarusian minority in Poland">Belarusians</a>, which were a minority in Poland at the time. </p><p>The Soviet Union perpetrated multiple atrocities against the Polish people, most notably the <a href="/wiki/Katyn_massacre" title="Katyn massacre">Katyn massacre</a> of military officers and intelligentsia in 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-psb_174-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-psb-174"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spanish_war">Spanish war</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Spanish war"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many Soviet and Communist writers and artists participated in the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Koltsov" title="Mikhail Koltsov">Mikhail Koltsov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ilya_Ehrenburg" title="Ilya Ehrenburg">Ilya Ehrenburg</a>) or supported the Republicans. Popular revolutionary poem <i>Grenada</i> by <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Arkadyevich_Svetlov" class="mw-redirect" title="Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov">Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov</a> was published in 1926. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Propaganda_in_World_War_II" title="Propaganda in World War II">Propaganda in World War II</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pre-war_anti-Nazi_propaganda">Pre-war anti-Nazi propaganda</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Pre-war anti-Nazi propaganda"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Professor_Mamlock_(1938_film)" title="Professor Mamlock (1938 film)"><i>Professor Mamlock</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Oppenheim_Family_(1939_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Oppenheim Family (1939 film)"><i>The Oppenheim Family</i></a> were released in 1938 and 1939 respectively. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Molotov–Ribbentrop_pact"><span id="Molotov.E2.80.93Ribbentrop_pact"></span>Molotov–Ribbentrop pact</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Molotov–Ribbentrop pact"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the face of massive Soviet bewilderment, the <a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a> was defended by a speaker in <a href="/wiki/Gorky_Park_(Moscow)" title="Gorky Park (Moscow)">Gorky Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-brendon683_175-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brendon683-175"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Molotov defended it in an article in <i>Pravda</i> proclaiming that it was a treaty between states, not systems.<sup id="cite_ref-brendon683_175-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brendon683-175"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stalin himself devised diagrams to show that <a href="/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain" title="Neville Chamberlain">Neville Chamberlain</a> had wanted to pit the USSR against Nazi Germany, but Comrade Stalin had wisely pit <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">Great Britain</a> against Nazi Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-brendon683_175-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brendon683-175"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For the duration of the pact, propagandists highly praised Germans.<sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Anti-German or anti-Nazi propaganda like <i><a href="/wiki/Professor_Mamlock_(1938_film)" title="Professor Mamlock (1938 film)">Professor Mamlock</a></i> was banned. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Anti-German">Anti-German</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Anti-German"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the beginning of <a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Operation Barbarossa</a>, Stalin himself declared in a 1941 broadcast that Germany waged war to exterminate the peoples of the USSR.<sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Propaganda published in <i>Pravda</i> denounced all <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">Germans</a> as killers, bloodsuckers, and cannibals, and much play was made of atrocity claims.<sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hatred was actively and overtly encouraged.<sup id="cite_ref-Overy68_163-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Overy68-163"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were told that the Germans took no prisoners.<sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Partisans were encouraged to see themselves as avengers.<sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ilya_Ehrenburg" title="Ilya Ehrenburg">Ilya Ehrenburg</a> was a prominent propaganda writer. </p><p>Many anti-German films in the Nazi era revolved about the <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">persecution of Jews in Germany</a>, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Professor_Mamlock_(1938_film)" title="Professor Mamlock (1938 film)">Professor Mamlock</a></i> (1938) and <i>The Oppenheim Family</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes216_112-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes216-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Girl_No._217" title="Girl No. 217">Girl No. 217</a></i> depicted the <a href="/wiki/German_mistreatment_of_Soviet_prisoners_of_war" class="mw-redirect" title="German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war">horrors inflicted on Soviet POWs</a>, especially the enslavement of the main character Tanya to an inhuman German family,<sup id="cite_ref-affinity_181-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-affinity-181"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reflecting the harsh treatment of <i><a href="/wiki/OST-Arbeiter" class="mw-redirect" title="OST-Arbeiter">OST-Arbeiter</a></i> in Nazi Germany. </p><p>Despite their own treatment of religion, a revival of Orthodoxy was permitted during World War II to demonize Nazism as the sole enemy of religion.<sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Vasily_Grossman" title="Vasily Grossman">Vasily Grossman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Arkadyevich_Svetlov" class="mw-redirect" title="Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov">Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov</a> were war correspondents of the <i><a href="/wiki/Krasnaya_Zvezda" title="Krasnaya Zvezda">Krasnaya Zvezda</a></i> (<i>Red Star</i>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Germany_vs._Hitlerites">Germany vs. Hitlerites</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Germany vs. Hitlerites"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Soviet propaganda to Germans during World War II was at pains to distinguish between the ordinary Germans and their leaders, the <a href="/wiki/Hitlerite" class="mw-redirect" title="Hitlerite">Hitlerites</a> (Nazis), and declaring they had no quarrel with the people.<sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The only way to discover if a German soldier had fallen alive into Soviet hands was to listen; the radio would announce that a certain prisoner would speak, then give some time for his family to gather and listen, and fill it with propaganda.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes224_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes224-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A National Committee for 'Free Germany' was founded in Soviet prisoner-of-war camps in an attempt to foment an uprising in Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-184" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-184"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Anti-fascism">Anti-fascism</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Anti-fascism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:INF3-327_Unity_of_Strength_British_and_Russian_servicemen_over_body_of_swastikaed_dragon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/INF3-327_Unity_of_Strength_British_and_Russian_servicemen_over_body_of_swastikaed_dragon.jpg/200px-INF3-327_Unity_of_Strength_British_and_Russian_servicemen_over_body_of_swastikaed_dragon.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/INF3-327_Unity_of_Strength_British_and_Russian_servicemen_over_body_of_swastikaed_dragon.jpg/300px-INF3-327_Unity_of_Strength_British_and_Russian_servicemen_over_body_of_swastikaed_dragon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/INF3-327_Unity_of_Strength_British_and_Russian_servicemen_over_body_of_swastikaed_dragon.jpg/400px-INF3-327_Unity_of_Strength_British_and_Russian_servicemen_over_body_of_swastikaed_dragon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2339" data-file-height="3339" /></a><figcaption>British and Soviet servicemen over body of <a href="/wiki/Swastika" title="Swastika">swastikaed</a> dragon</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Anti-fascism" title="Anti-fascism">Anti-fascism</a> was commonly used in propaganda aimed outside the USSR during the 1930s, particularly to draw people into <a href="/wiki/Front_organizations" class="mw-redirect" title="Front organizations">front organizations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a> was, in particular, used to quash dissent among European communist parties and reports of Stalin's growing totalitarianism.<sup id="cite_ref-186" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-186"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Patriotism/Nationalism"><span id="Patriotism.2FNationalism"></span>Patriotism/Nationalism</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Patriotism/Nationalism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Soviet_patriotism" title="Soviet patriotism">Soviet patriotism</a></div> <p>In face of the threat of Nazi Germany, the international claims of communism were played down, and people were recruited to help defend the country on patriotic motives.<sup id="cite_ref-rhodes217_114-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rhodes217-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The presence of a real enemy was used to inspire action and production in face of the threat to the <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Father Soviet Union</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Personification_of_Russia" title="Personification of Russia">Mother Russia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Richard_Overy_p503_187-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Richard_Overy_p503-187"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All Soviet citizens were called on to fight, and soldiers who surrendered had failed in their duty.<sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To prevent retreats from Stalingrad, soldiers were urged to fight for the soil.<sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Richard_Overy_p503_187-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Richard_Overy_p503-187"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Russian history was pressed into providing a heroic past and patriotic symbols, although selectively, for instance praising men as state builders.<sup id="cite_ref-190" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-190"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_(film)" title="Alexander Nevsky (film)">Alexander Nevsky</a></i> made a central theme the importance of the common people in saving Russia while nobles and merchants did nothing, a motif that was heavily employed.<sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Still, the figures selected had no socialist connection.<sup id="cite_ref-Overy68_163-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Overy68-163"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Artists and writers were permitted more freedom, as long as they did not criticize Marxism directly and contained patriotic themes.<sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was termed the "<a href="/wiki/Great_Patriotic_War_(term)" title="Great Patriotic War (term)">Great Patriotic War</a>" and stories presented it as a fight of ordinary people's heroism.<sup id="cite_ref-Richard_Overy_p_291_193-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Richard_Overy_p_291-193"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While the term <i>motherland</i> was used, it was used to mean the Soviet Union, although primarily Russian national heroes were used to inspire the soldiers.<sup id="cite_ref-194" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-194"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Appeals were also made that the home of other nationalities was the home of their own.<sup id="cite_ref-195" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-195"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many Soviet citizens found treatment of soldiers who fell into enemy hands as "traitors to the Motherland" as suitable for their own grim determination, and "not a step back" was supposed to inspire soldiers to fight with self-sacrifice and heroism. However, this was in fact realized via <a href="/wiki/NKVD" title="NKVD">NKVD</a>-led <a href="/wiki/Barrier_troops" title="Barrier troops">barrier troops</a> that shot retreating soldiers in the back.<sup id="cite_ref-volko_196-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-volko-196"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Richard_Overy_p_291_193-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Richard_Overy_p_291-193"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This continued after the war in a campaign to remove supposed "<a href="/wiki/Anti-Sovietism" title="Anti-Sovietism">anti-patriotic elements</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1960s, memories of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Patriotic_War_(term)" title="Great Patriotic War (term)">Great Patriotic War</a> were revived to bolster support for the regime, with all accounts carefully censored to prevent accounts of Stalin's early incompetence and defeats, and their heavy cost.<sup id="cite_ref-198" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-198"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Utopia_and_space">Utopia and space</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Utopia and space"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, the concept of a socialist utopia was heavily proselytized by the Soviet government. Under the Khrushchev administration, this idea of a Soviet utopia was worked heavily into the concept of space travel and spreading across the world.<sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The accomplishments in space were closely tied to a sense of utopia and the idea that communism was superior to other forms of government. In a press release after Sputnik's launch the Soviet Union states that "...our contemporaries will witness how the freed and conscientious labour of the people of the new socialist society makes the most daring dreams of mankind a reality."<sup id="cite_ref-200" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The concept of success in science and space exploration were closely tied to the concept of a new socialist society and the utopia that would be created in that society. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Soviet_propaganda_abroad">Soviet propaganda abroad</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Soviet propaganda abroad"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Belarus_1939_Greeting_Soviets.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7f/Belarus_1939_Greeting_Soviets.jpg/250px-Belarus_1939_Greeting_Soviets.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7f/Belarus_1939_Greeting_Soviets.jpg/375px-Belarus_1939_Greeting_Soviets.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7f/Belarus_1939_Greeting_Soviets.jpg/500px-Belarus_1939_Greeting_Soviets.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="391" /></a><figcaption>Residents of a town in <a href="/wiki/Kresy" title="Kresy">Eastern Poland</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Western_Belarus" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Belarus">Western Belarus</a>) assembled to greet the arrival of the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland" title="Soviet invasion of Poland">Soviet invasion of Poland</a> in 1939. The Russian text reads "Long Live the great theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin-Stalin". Such welcomings were organized by the activists of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_West_Belarus" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist Party of West Belarus">Communist Party of West Belarus</a> affiliated with the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Poland" title="Communist Party of Poland">Polish Communist Party</a>, delegalized in Poland by 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-Stosunki_201-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stosunki-201"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Propaganda_Leaflet_1941-44.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Propaganda_Leaflet_1941-44.jpg/250px-Propaganda_Leaflet_1941-44.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Propaganda_Leaflet_1941-44.jpg/375px-Propaganda_Leaflet_1941-44.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Propaganda_Leaflet_1941-44.jpg/500px-Propaganda_Leaflet_1941-44.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4542" data-file-height="2994" /></a><figcaption>World War II propaganda leaflet dropped from a Soviet airplane on Finnish territory, urging Finnish soldiers to surrender</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Soviet_influence_on_the_peace_movement" title="Soviet influence on the peace movement">Soviet influence on the peace movement</a> and <a href="/wiki/Active_measures" title="Active measures">Active measures</a></div> <p>Trotsky and a small group of Communists regarded the Soviet Union as doomed without the spread of the revolution internationally.<sup id="cite_ref-202" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-202"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The victory of Stalin, who regarded the construction of socialism in the Soviet Union as a necessary exemplar to the rest of the world and represented the majority view,<sup id="cite_ref-203" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-203"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> did not, however, stop international propaganda. </p><p>In the 1980s, the US <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> (CIA) estimated that the budget of Soviet propaganda abroad was between $3.5 and $4 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-Staar_204-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar-204"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Propaganda abroad was partly conducted by Soviet intelligence agencies. <a href="/wiki/GRU_(Soviet_Union)" title="GRU (Soviet Union)">GRU</a> alone spent more than $1 billion for propaganda and <a href="/wiki/Peace_movements" class="mw-redirect" title="Peace movements">peace movements</a> against <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, which was a "hugely successful campaign and well worth the cost", according to GRU defector <a href="/wiki/Stanislav_Lunev" title="Stanislav Lunev">Stanislav Lunev</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lunev_205-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lunev-205"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He claimed that "the GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every <a href="/wiki/Antiwar_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Antiwar movement">antiwar movement</a> and organization in America and abroad".<sup id="cite_ref-Lunev_205-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lunev-205"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Oleg_Kalugin" title="Oleg Kalugin">Oleg Kalugin</a>, "the Soviet intelligence was really unparalleled. ... The KGB programs – which would run all sorts of <a href="/wiki/Congress" title="Congress">congresses</a>, peace congresses, youth congresses, <a href="/wiki/Festival" title="Festival">festivals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's movement">women's movements</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trade_union" title="Trade union">trade union</a> movements, campaigns against U.S. missiles in Europe, campaigns against neutron weapons, <a href="/wiki/Operation_Denver" title="Operation Denver">allegations</a> that <a href="/wiki/AIDS" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS">AIDS</a> ... was invented by the CIA ... all sorts of <a href="/wiki/Forgeries" class="mw-redirect" title="Forgeries">forgeries</a> and faked material – [were] targeted at politicians, the academic community, at the public at large."<sup id="cite_ref-Kalugin_206-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kalugin-206"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Soviet-run movements pretended to have little or no ties with the USSR, often seen as noncommunist (or allied to such groups), but were controlled by the USSR.<sup id="cite_ref-Staar79_207-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar79-207"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most members and supporters, did not realize that they were instruments of Soviet propaganda.<sup id="cite_ref-Staar79_207-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar79-207"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Staar84_208-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar84-208"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The organizations aimed at convincing well-meaning but naive Westerners to support Soviet overt or covert goals.<sup id="cite_ref-Staar86_209-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar86-209"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A witness in a US congressional hearing on Soviet cover activity described the goals of such organizations as to "spread Soviet propaganda themes and create false impression of public support for the foreign policies of Soviet Union."<sup id="cite_ref-Staar84_208-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar84-208"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Much of the activity of the Soviet-run peace movements was supervised by the <a href="/wiki/World_Peace_Council" title="World Peace Council">World Peace Council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Staar79_207-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar79-207"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Staar84_208-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar84-208"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other important front organizations included the <a href="/wiki/World_Federation_of_Trade_Unions" title="World Federation of Trade Unions">World Federation of Trade Unions</a>, the <a href="/wiki/World_Federation_of_Democratic_Youth" title="World Federation of Democratic Youth">World Federation of Democratic Youth</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/International_Union_of_Students" title="International Union of Students">International Union of Students</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Staar84_208-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar84-208"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Somewhat less important <a href="/wiki/Communist_front" title="Communist front">front organizations</a> included: Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization, <a href="/wiki/Christian_Peace_Conference" title="Christian Peace Conference">Christian Peace Conference</a>, <a href="/wiki/International_Association_of_Democratic_Lawyers" title="International Association of Democratic Lawyers">International Association of Democratic Lawyers</a>, International Federation of Resistance Movements, <a href="/wiki/International_Institute_for_Peace" title="International Institute for Peace">International Institute for Peace</a>, <a href="/wiki/International_Organization_of_Journalists" title="International Organization of Journalists">International Organization of Journalists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_International_Democratic_Federation" title="Women's International Democratic Federation">Women's International Democratic Federation</a> and <a href="/wiki/World_Federation_of_Scientific_Workers" title="World Federation of Scientific Workers">World Federation of Scientific Workers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Staar80-81_210-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar80-81-210"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were also numerous smaller organizations, affiliated with the above fronts.<sup id="cite_ref-Staar86_209-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar86-209"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Staar82-83_211-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar82-83-211"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Those organizations received in total more than 100 million dollars from the USSR every year.<sup id="cite_ref-Staar79_207-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Staar79-207"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Propaganda against the United States and the greater Western world included the following actions:<sup id="cite_ref-Mitrokhin_212-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mitrokhin-212"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span 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(May 2023)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_about_Adolf_Hitler%27s_death" title="Conspiracy theories about Adolf Hitler's death">Claiming that Adolf Hitler faked his death</a> as early as <i>Pravda</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s evening edition of the day the Soviets captured the <a href="/wiki/Reich_Chancellery" title="Reich Chancellery">Reich Chancellery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-213" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-213"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stalin (<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1953</span>) apparently believed that Hitler escaped.<sup id="cite_ref-:15_214-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:15-214"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although there were problems with the remains found by the Soviets (with only—apparently planted—dental remains belonging to Hitler and <a href="/wiki/Eva_Braun" title="Eva Braun">Eva Braun</a>), they also released <a href="/wiki/The_Death_of_Adolf_Hitler" title="The Death of Adolf Hitler">disinformation regarding alleged autopsies</a> as well as conflicting accounts of their subsequent disposal of the remains.<sup id="cite_ref-:17_215-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:17-215"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:6_216-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-216"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-217" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-217"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Promotion of <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories" title="John F. 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Edgar Hoover">J. Edgar Hoover</a> was a <a href="/wiki/Homosexual" class="mw-redirect" title="Homosexual">homosexual</a>.</li> <li>Attempts to discredit <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> by placing publications portraying him as an "<a href="/wiki/Uncle_Tom" title="Uncle Tom">Uncle Tom</a>" who was secretly receiving government subsidies.</li> <li>Stirring up <a href="/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States" title="Racism in the United States">racial tensions in the US</a> by mailing bogus letters from the <a href="/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a>, and spreading <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._assassination_conspiracy_theories" title="Martin Luther King Jr. assassination conspiracy theories">conspiracy theories</a> that the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.">assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.</a> had been planned by the US government.</li> <li>Fabrication of the story that <a href="/wiki/AIDS_virus" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS virus">AIDS virus</a> was <a href="/wiki/Operation_Denver" title="Operation Denver">manufactured by US scientists</a> at <a href="/wiki/Fort_Detrick" title="Fort Detrick">Fort Detrick</a>; the story was spread by Russian-born biologist <a href="/wiki/Jakob_Segal" title="Jakob Segal">Jakob Segal</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Weekly" title="Soviet Weekly">Soviet Weekly</a></i> was published in Britain.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sputnik_(magazine)" title="Sputnik (magazine)">Sputnik</a></i> was a monthly edited in Soviet Union in many languages, including English.</li> <li>Discounting and downplaying the <a href="/wiki/US_military_aid" class="mw-redirect" title="US military aid">US military aid</a> given to the Soviets during WWII under the <a href="/wiki/Lend-Lease_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Lend-Lease Act">Lend-Lease Act</a>, as well as the US's role in victory in 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 November</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Must+Read+Alaska&rft.atitle=Alexander+Dolitsky%3A+Remembering+the+Soviet+psychological+documentary+film+%27I+and+Others%27+that+I+took+part+in&rft.date=2021-08-01&rft.aulast=Dolitsky&rft.aufirst=Alexander&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmustreadalaska.com%2Falexander-dolitsky-remembering-the-soviet-psychological-documentary-film-i-and-others-that-i-took-part-in%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">p. 8, Peter Kenez, <i>The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917–1929</i>, Cambridge University Press 1985.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Raymond Bauer, "Our big advantage: the social sciences (development in the US and Soviet Union compared)", <i>Harvard Business Review</i> vol. 36 (1958): pp. 125–136; quoted in <a href="/wiki/Alex_Carey_(writer)" title="Alex Carey (writer)">Alex Carey</a> 1997, <i>Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty</i>, University of Illinois Press, p. 13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Pipes, <i>Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime</i>, p315, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7">978-0-394-50242-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Figes-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Figes_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Figes_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Figes_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Figes_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Orlando_Figes" title="Orlando Figes">Orlando Figes</a> <i>The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia</i>, 2007, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8050-7461-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8050-7461-9">0-8050-7461-9</a>, pp. 20–31.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-way356-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-way356_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-way356_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p. 356 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p. 143 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p. 365 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p. 406 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p. 94 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Andrei_Sokolov_p374-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Andrei_Sokolov_p374_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Andrei_Sokolov_p374_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p. 374 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p. 378 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p. 379 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rhodes212-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes212_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes212_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes212_14-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Anthony Rhodes, <i>Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II</i>, p212 1976, Chelsea House Publishers, New York</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rhodes224-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes224_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes224_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Anthony Rhodes, <i>Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II</i>, p224, 158 1976, Chelsea House Publishers, New York</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 140 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Anthony Rhodes, <i>Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II</i>, p218-9 1976, Chelsea House Publishers, New York</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rhodes214-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes214_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes214_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Anthony Rhodes, <i>Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II</i>, p214 1976, Chelsea House Publishers, New York</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Pipes, <i>Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime</i>, p308-9, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7">978-0-394-50242-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rhodes219-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes219_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes219_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes219_20-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Anthony Rhodes, <i>Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II</i>, p219 1976, Chelsea House Publishers, New York</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKenez1985" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Kenez" title="Peter Kenez">Kenez, Peter</a> (1985). "Agitational trains and ships". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=b7ebCPIm8KsC"><i>The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917–1929</i></a>. Cambridge University Press. p. 58. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521313988" title="Special:BookSources/9780521313988"><bdi>9780521313988</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 April</span> 2016</span>. <q>An unusual and yet typically Bolshevik method of oral agitation was to send agitational trains and ships into the countryside.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Agitational+trains+and+ships&rft.btitle=The+Birth+of+the+Propaganda+State%3A+Soviet+Methods+of+Mass+Mobilization%2C+1917%E2%80%931929&rft.pages=58&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1985&rft.isbn=9780521313988&rft.aulast=Kenez&rft.aufirst=Peter&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Db7ebCPIm8KsC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWatson2016" class="citation book cs1">Watson, Derek (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gzZaCwAAQBAJ"><i>Molotov: A Biography</i></a>. Centre for Russian and East European Studies. Springer. p. 35. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780230514522" title="Special:BookSources/9780230514522"><bdi>9780230514522</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 April</span> 2014</span>. <q>On 26 June 1919, VTsIK (The All-Russian Central Executive Committee) placed [Molotov] in command of the agitparokhod (agitation steamboat) <i>Krasnaya Zvezda</i> (Red Star). He was to work in the Volga provinces freed from White forces. [...] The <i>Krasnaya Zvezda</i> towed a barge equipped as an outdoor cinema to show films, such as 'Electricity in the Countryside', to audiences of 1000 strong at a single performance. [...] There was a shop that sold books; and the ship had its own press to produce free literature [...].</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Molotov%3A+A+Biography&rft.series=Centre+for+Russian+and+East+European+Studies&rft.pages=35&rft.pub=Springer&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=9780230514522&rft.aulast=Watson&rft.aufirst=Derek&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DgzZaCwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Karel_C._Berkhoff" title="Karel C. Berkhoff">Karel C. Berkhoff</a>, <i>Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule</i> p190 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01313-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01313-1">0-674-01313-1</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 358 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 157 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Pipes, <i>Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime</i>, p282, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7">978-0-394-50242-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>T<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA368">he Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p368 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Pipes, <i>Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime</i>, p283, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7">978-0-394-50242-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pipes292-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-pipes292_29-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pipes292_29-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Pipes, <i>Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime</i>, p292, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7">978-0-394-50242-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-design-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-design_30-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-design_30-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">eye magazine, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=62&fid=270">Designing heroes</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210209015635/http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/designing-heroes">Archived</a> 9 February 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-overy260-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-overy260_31-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-overy260_31-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-overy260_31-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA260">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p260 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA355">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p355-6 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbuam and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p1 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA350">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p350 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Roy_Medvedev" title="Roy Medvedev">Roy Medvedev</a>, <i>Let History 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R. Myers">B. R. Myers</a>, <i>The Cleanest Race</i>, p 81 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-933633-91-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-933633-91-6">978-1-933633-91-6</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA258">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p258 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA301">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a>, p301 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p129 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-R._Myers,_p_86-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-R._Myers,_p_86_52-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-R._Myers,_p_86_52-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">B. R. Myers, <i>The Cleanest Race</i>, p 86 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-933633-91-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-933633-91-6">978-1-933633-91-6</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Overy" title="Richard Overy">Richard Overy</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA258">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p258-9 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 217 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-overy259-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-overy259_55-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-overy259_55-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-overy259_55-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-overy259_55-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA259">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p259 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p35 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 247 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Piers Brendon, <i>The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s</i>, p488-9 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9">0-375-40881-9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA257">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p257 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Service_(historian)" title="Robert Service (historian)">Robert Service</a>, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 246 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p194 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 245 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p12 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 108 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Piers Brendon, <i>The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s</i>, p12 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9">0-375-40881-9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA234">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p234 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Roy Medvedev, <i>Let History Judge</i> p93 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-231-06350-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-231-06350-4">0-231-06350-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 179-80 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p54 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 210 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p197 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p210 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p233 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Timothy_D._Snyder" class="mw-redirect" title="Timothy D. Snyder">Timothy Snyder</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Bloodlands:_Europe_Between_Hitler_and_Stalin" class="mw-redirect" title="Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin">Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin</a></i>, p 41 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-465-00239-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-465-00239-9">978-0-465-00239-9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Piers Brendon, <i>The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s</i>, p466-7 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9">0-375-40881-9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Piers Brendon, <i>The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s</i>, p490 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9">0-375-40881-9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Piers Brendon, <i>The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s</i>, p488 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9">0-375-40881-9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-78"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-78">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 276 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-79">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 319 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Coste-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Coste_80-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCoste1950" class="citation journal cs1">Coste, Brutus (January 1950). "Propaganda to Eastern Europe". <i>The Public Opinion Quarterly</i>. <b>14</b> (4): 639–66. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1086%2F266246">10.1086/266246</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Public+Opinion+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Propaganda+to+Eastern+Europe&rft.volume=14&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=639-66&rft.date=1950-01&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1086%2F266246&rft.aulast=Coste&rft.aufirst=Brutus&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-81">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA262">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p262 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-82"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-82">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA231">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p231 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-83">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA233">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p233 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-84"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-84">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA235">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p235 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-85"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-85">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p167 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-way171-86"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-way171_86-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-way171_86-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p171 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-87">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 239 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-way22-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-way22_88-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-way22_88-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-way22_88-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p22 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-89">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p98 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-90"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-90">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p86 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-way258-91"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-way258_91-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-way258_91-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p358 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA267">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p267 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA290">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p290 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-94"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-94">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA291">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p291 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-95"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-95">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p182 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-96"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-96">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Mark_Mazower" title="Mark Mazower">Mark Mazower</a>, <i>Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century</i> p120-1 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-679-43809-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-679-43809-2">0-679-43809-2</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-97"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-97">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 177 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-98"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-98">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 186 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-way208-99"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-way208_99-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-way208_99-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p208 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-100"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-100">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p208-9 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-101"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-101">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p281 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-102"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-102">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://library2.usask.ca/USSRConst/gallery/canal">Moscow-Volga Canal</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110203010944/http://library2.usask.ca/USSRConst/gallery/canal">Archived</a> 3 February 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-103"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-103">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p253 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-104"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-104">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>Why the Allies Won</i> p 188-9 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-03925-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-03925-0">0-393-03925-0</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-105"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-105">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 278 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-106"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-106">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won, p189 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-03925-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-03925-0">0-393-03925-0</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-107"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-107">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mark Mazower, <i>Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century</i> p276-7 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-679-43809-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-679-43809-2">0-679-43809-2</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-108"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-108">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 356 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-109"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-109">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 405 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-110"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-110">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 96 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-service332-111"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-service332_111-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-service332_111-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 332 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rhodes216-112"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes216_112-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes216_112-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes216_112-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes216_112-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Anthony Rhodes, <i>Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II</i>, p216 1976, Chelsea House Publishers, New York</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-113"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-113">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 254 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rhodes217-114"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes217_114-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rhodes217_114-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Anthony Rhodes, <i>Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II</i>, p217 1976, Chelsea House Publishers, New York</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-115"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-115">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Piers_Brendon" title="Piers Brendon">Piers Brendon</a>, <i>The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s</i>, p11 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9">0-375-40881-9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-116"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-116">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 142 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-117"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-117">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 84 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-service270-118"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-service270_118-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-service270_118-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 270 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-119"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-119">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Meirion and Susie Harries, <i>Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army</i> p 139-40 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-394-56935-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-394-56935-0">0-394-56935-0</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-120"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-120">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 282 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-121"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-121">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Meirion and Susie Harries, <i>Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army</i> p 469-70 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-394-56935-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-394-56935-0">0-394-56935-0</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-122"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-122">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Overy" title="Richard Overy">Richard Overy</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA107">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p107 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-123"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-123">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 93 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-124"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-124">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 153-4 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-125"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-125">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA112">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p112-3 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Robert_Service_p_198-126"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Robert_Service_p_198_126-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Robert_Service_p_198_126-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p. 198 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-127"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-127">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA114">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p114-5 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-128"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-128">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Piers Brendon, <i>The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s</i>, p10-1 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9">0-375-40881-9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-129"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-129">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Roy Medvedev, <i>Let History Judge</i> p55-6 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-231-06350-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-231-06350-4">0-231-06350-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-130"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-130">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Roy Medvedev, <i>Let History Judge</i> p63 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-231-06350-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-231-06350-4">0-231-06350-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-131"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-131">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA117">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p117 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-132"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-132">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Piers Brendon, <i>The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s</i>, p10 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9">0-375-40881-9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-133"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-133">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p209 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-134"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-134">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Piers Brendon, <i>The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s</i>, p468-9 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9">0-375-40881-9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-brendon489-135"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-brendon489_135-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-brendon489_135-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Piers Brendon, <i>The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s</i>, p489-90 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9">0-375-40881-9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-136"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-136">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>Why the Allies Won</i>, p 259 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-03925-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-03925-0">0-393-03925-0</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-137"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-137">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 263 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-138"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-138">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 289 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-139"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-139">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 347 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-140"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-140">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Roy Medvedev, <i>Let History Judge</i> p133 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-231-06350-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-231-06350-4">0-231-06350-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-141"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-141">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSuny2022" class="citation journal cs1">Suny, Ronald Grigor (2 January 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09546545.2022.2065740">"Stalin, Falsifier in Chief: E. H. Carr and the Perils of Historical Research Introduction"</a>. <i>Revolutionary Russia</i>. <b>35</b> (1): 11–14. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F09546545.2022.2065740">10.1080/09546545.2022.2065740</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0954-6545">0954-6545</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Revolutionary+Russia&rft.atitle=Stalin%2C+Falsifier+in+Chief%3A+E.+H.+Carr+and+the+Perils+of+Historical+Research+Introduction&rft.volume=35&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=11-14&rft.date=2022-01-02&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F09546545.2022.2065740&rft.issn=0954-6545&rft.aulast=Suny&rft.aufirst=Ronald+Grigor&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1080%2F09546545.2022.2065740&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-142"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-142">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBailey1955" class="citation journal cs1">Bailey, Sydney D. (1955). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/126074">"Stalin's Falsification of History: The Case of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty"</a>. <i>The Russian Review</i>. <b>14</b> (1): 24–35. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F126074">10.2307/126074</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0036-0341">0036-0341</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/126074">126074</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Russian+Review&rft.atitle=Stalin%27s+Falsification+of+History%3A+The+Case+of+the+Brest-Litovsk+Treaty&rft.volume=14&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=24-35&rft.date=1955&rft.issn=0036-0341&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F126074%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F126074&rft.aulast=Bailey&rft.aufirst=Sydney+D.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F126074&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-143"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-143">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTrotsky2019" class="citation book cs1">Trotsky, Leon (13 January 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PF2LDwAAQBAJ&q=stalin+school"><i>The Stalin School of Falsification</i></a>. Pickle Partners Publishing. pp. vii-89. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78912-348-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-78912-348-7"><bdi>978-1-78912-348-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Stalin+School+of+Falsification&rft.pages=vii-89&rft.pub=Pickle+Partners+Publishing&rft.date=2019-01-13&rft.isbn=978-1-78912-348-7&rft.aulast=Trotsky&rft.aufirst=Leon&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPF2LDwAAQBAJ%26q%3Dstalin%2Bschool&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-144"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-144">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTrotsky2019" class="citation book cs1">Trotsky, Leon (13 January 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PF2LDwAAQBAJ&q=stalin+school"><i>The Stalin School of Falsification</i></a>. Pickle Partners Publishing. pp. vii-89. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78912-348-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-78912-348-7"><bdi>978-1-78912-348-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Stalin+School+of+Falsification&rft.pages=vii-89&rft.pub=Pickle+Partners+Publishing&rft.date=2019-01-13&rft.isbn=978-1-78912-348-7&rft.aulast=Trotsky&rft.aufirst=Leon&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPF2LDwAAQBAJ%26q%3Dstalin%2Bschool&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Black-145"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Black_145-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Black_145-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Black_145-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Nicolas Werth, Karel Bartošek, Jean-Louis Panné, Jean-Louis Margolin, Andrzej Paczkowski, <a href="/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Courtois" title="Stéphane Courtois">Stéphane Courtois</a>, <i>The <a href="/wiki/Black_Book_of_Communism" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Book of Communism">Black Book of Communism</a>: Crimes, Terror, Repression</i>, <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Press" title="Harvard University Press">Harvard University Press</a>, 1999, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-07608-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-07608-7">0-674-07608-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-reflections-146"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-reflections_146-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Conquest" title="Robert Conquest">Robert Conquest</a> <i>Reflections on a Ravaged Century</i> (2000) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-04818-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-04818-7">0-393-04818-7</a>, pp. 101–111.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-147"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-147">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Pipes" title="Richard Pipes">Richard Pipes</a> (1993) "Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime", p. 309.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-148"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-148">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Black Book</i>, p. 749.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-149"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-149">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Black Book</i>, p. 750.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-150"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-150">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA271">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p271 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-151"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-151">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Anthony Rhodes, <i>Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II</i>, p214, 216 1976, Chelsea House Publishers, New York</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-152"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-152">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA271">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p271-2 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-153"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-153">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Pipes, <i>Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime</i>, p314-5, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7">978-0-394-50242-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-154"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-154">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Pipes, <i>Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime</i>, p326, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50242-7">978-0-394-50242-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-155"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-155">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA275">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p275 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-156"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-156">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p74 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Andrei_Sokolov_p75-157"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Andrei_Sokolov_p75_157-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Andrei_Sokolov_p75_157-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Stegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, <i>Stalinism As A Way Of Life</i>, p75 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-08480-3">0-300-08480-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Powell1967-158"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Powell1967_158-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Powell1967_158-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPowell1967" class="citation journal cs1">Powell, David (1967). 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О романе М. А. Булгакова ″Мастер и Маргарита″ и ″проблеме Христа″</bdi></a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Neva_(magazine)" title="Neva (magazine)">Нева</a></i> (in Russian) (7). <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0130-741X">0130-741X</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://magazines.russ.ru/neva/2009/7/do28.html">the original</a> on 7 November 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0&rft.atitle=%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC+%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%BB+%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD+%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B7%3F+%D0%9E+%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5+%D0%9C.+%D0%90.+%D0%91%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0+%E2%80%B3%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80+%D0%B8+%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%E2%80%B3+%D0%B8+%E2%80%B3%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5+%D0%A5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%E2%80%B3&rft.issue=7&rft.date=2009&rft.issn=0130-741X&rft.aulast=%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0&rft.aufirst=%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B0&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmagazines.russ.ru%2Fneva%2F2009%2F7%2Fdo28.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-162"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-162">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p. 135 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Overy68-163"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Overy68_163-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Overy68_163-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Overy68_163-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>Why the Allies Won</i>, p68 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-03925-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-03925-0">0-393-03925-0</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-164"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-164">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>Why the Allies Won</i>, p. 283 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-03925-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-03925-0">0-393-03925-0</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-165"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-165">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 142-3 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-166"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-166">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA299">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p299 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-167"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-167">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">R. 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XLIII, 2004–2005, pp. 305–306</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-brendon683-175"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-brendon683_175-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-brendon683_175-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-brendon683_175-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Piers Brendon, <i>The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s</i>, p683 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-40881-9">0-375-40881-9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-176"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-176">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 284 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-177"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-177">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA483">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p483 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-178"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-178">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA516">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p516 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-179"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-179">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA518">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p518 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-180"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-180">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA521">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p521 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-affinity-181"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-affinity_181-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film633871.html">Girl No. 217</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110728063532/http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film633871.html">Archived</a> 28 July 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-182"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-182">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA277">The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</a></i>, p277 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-183"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-183">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rhodes, Anthony (1976), <i>Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion: World War II</i>, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, pp. 158, 222.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-184"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-184">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Balfour, Michael, <i>Propaganda in War 1939–1945: Organisation, Policies and Publics in Britain and Germany</i>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7100-0193-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-7100-0193-2">0-7100-0193-2</a>, p. 359.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-185"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-185">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Riding" title="Alan Riding">Alan Riding</a>, <i>And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris</i> p 22 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-307-26897-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-307-26897-6">978-0-307-26897-6</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-186"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-186">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Alan Riding, <i>And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris</i> p 24 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-307-26897-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-307-26897-6">978-0-307-26897-6</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Richard_Overy_p503-187"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Richard_Overy_p503_187-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Richard_Overy_p503_187-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</i>, p503 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-188"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-188">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</i>, p515-6 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-189"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-189">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</i>, p535 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-190"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-190">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</i>, p559 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-191"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-191">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</i>, p558 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-192"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-192">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 281 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> 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href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-195"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-195">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Service, <i>A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin</i> p 283 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-01801-X">0-674-01801-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-volko-196"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-volko_196-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dmitri Volkogonov, <i>Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary</i>, transl. and edited by Harold Shukman, HarperCollins Publishers, London (1996), p. 180</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-197"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-197">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mikhail Heller, Aleksander M. Nekrich, <i>Utopia in Power</i>, p487 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-46242-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-46242-3">0-671-46242-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-198"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-198">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>Why the Allies Won</i>, p 328 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-03925-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-03925-0">0-393-03925-0</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-199"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-199">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGilison1975" class="citation book cs1">Gilison, Jerome M. (1975). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/695524202"><i>The Soviet image of utopia</i></a>. The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8018-1696-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8018-1696-3"><bdi>0-8018-1696-3</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/695524202">695524202</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Soviet+image+of+utopia&rft.pub=The+Johns+Hopkins+Univ.+Press&rft.date=1975&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F695524202&rft.isbn=0-8018-1696-3&rft.aulast=Gilison&rft.aufirst=Jerome+M.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fworldcat.org%2Foclc%2F695524202&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-200"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-200">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCleaver1959" class="citation journal cs1">Cleaver, A. V. (January 1959). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0368393100070565">"Behind the sputniks—A Survey of soviet space science.F. J. Krieger. Public Affairs Press, U.S.A., 1958. 380 pp. Illustrated. 6 dollars"</a>. <i>The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society</i>. <b>63</b> (577): 65. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs0368393100070565">10.1017/s0368393100070565</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0368-3931">0368-3931</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:113748329">113748329</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Journal+of+the+Royal+Aeronautical+Society&rft.atitle=Behind+the+sputniks%E2%80%94A+Survey+of+soviet+space+science.F.+J.+Krieger.+Public+Affairs+Press%2C+U.S.A.%2C+1958.+380+pp.+Illustrated.+6+dollars.&rft.volume=63&rft.issue=577&rft.pages=65&rft.date=1959-01&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A113748329%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.issn=0368-3931&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2Fs0368393100070565&rft.aulast=Cleaver&rft.aufirst=A.+V.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1017%2Fs0368393100070565&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Stosunki-201"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Stosunki_201-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Polish)</span> Marek Wierzbicki, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090406173221/http://bialorus.pl/index.php?secId=49&docId=60&&Rozdzial=historia"><i>Stosunki polsko-białoruskie pod okupacją sowiecką (1939–1941)</i></a>. "Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne" (НА СТАРОНКАХ КАМУНІКАТУ, Biełaruski histaryczny zbornik) 20 (2003), p. 186–188. Retrieved 16 July 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-202"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-202">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</i>, pp. 25–26 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-203"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-203">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Overy, <i>The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia</i>, p 38 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-02030-4">0-393-02030-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Staar-204"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Staar_204-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Felix Staar, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvv7U15xCtMC">Foreign policies of the Soviet Union</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221017000247/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvv7U15xCtMC&source=gbs_navlinks_s">Archived</a> 17 October 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, Hoover Press, 1991, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8179-9102-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8179-9102-6">0-8179-9102-6</a>, p. 75</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Lunev-205"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Lunev_205-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Lunev_205-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stanislav_Lunev" title="Stanislav Lunev">Stanislav Lunev</a>. <i>Through the Eyes of the Enemy: The Autobiography of Stanislav Lunev</i>, Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1998. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-89526-390-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-89526-390-4">0-89526-390-4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Kalugin-206"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Kalugin_206-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070627183623/http://www3.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/21/interviews/kalugin/">"CNN – Cold War Experience: Espionage"</a>. 27 June 2007. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www3.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/21/interviews/kalugin/">the original</a> on 27 June 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=CNN+%E2%80%93+Cold+War+Experience%3A+Espionage&rft.date=2007-06-27&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww3.cnn.com%2FSPECIALS%2Fcold.war%2Fepisodes%2F21%2Finterviews%2Fkalugin%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Staar79-207"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Staar79_207-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Staar79_207-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Staar79_207-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Staar79_207-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Felix Staar, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvv7U15xCtMC">Foreign policies of the Soviet Union</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221017000247/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvv7U15xCtMC&source=gbs_navlinks_s">Archived</a> 17 October 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, Hoover Press, 1991, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8179-9102-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8179-9102-6">0-8179-9102-6</a>, p.79</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Staar84-208"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Staar84_208-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Staar84_208-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Staar84_208-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Staar84_208-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Felix Staar, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvv7U15xCtMC">Foreign policies of the Soviet Union</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221017000247/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvv7U15xCtMC&source=gbs_navlinks_s">Archived</a> 17 October 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, Hoover Press, 1991, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8179-9102-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8179-9102-6">0-8179-9102-6</a>, p. 84</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Staar86-209"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Staar86_209-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Staar86_209-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Felix Staar, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvv7U15xCtMC">Foreign policies of the Soviet Union</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221017000247/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvv7U15xCtMC&source=gbs_navlinks_s">Archived</a> 17 October 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, Hoover Press, 1991, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8179-9102-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8179-9102-6">0-8179-9102-6</a>, p. 86</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Staar80-81-210"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Staar80-81_210-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Felix Staar, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvv7U15xCtMC">Foreign policies of the Soviet Union</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221017000247/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvv7U15xCtMC&source=gbs_navlinks_s">Archived</a> 17 October 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, Hoover Press, 1991, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8179-9102-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8179-9102-6">0-8179-9102-6</a>, p. 80–81</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Staar82-83-211"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Staar82-83_211-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Felix Staar, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvv7U15xCtMC">Foreign policies of the Soviet Union</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221017000247/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvv7U15xCtMC&source=gbs_navlinks_s">Archived</a> 17 October 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, Hoover Press, 1991, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8179-9102-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8179-9102-6">0-8179-9102-6</a>, p. 82–83</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Mitrokhin-212"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Mitrokhin_212-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mitrokhin, Vasili, Christopher Andrew (2000). <i>The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West</i>. 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Translated by Whiteside, Shaun. <a href="/wiki/Da_Capo_Press" title="Da Capo Press">Da Capo Press</a>. p. 118. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-306-92258-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-306-92258-9"><bdi>978-0-306-92258-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Death+of+Hitler&rft.pages=118&rft.pub=Da+Capo+Press&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=978-0-306-92258-9&rft.aulast=Brisard&rft.aufirst=Jean-Christophe&rft.au=Parshina%2C+Lana&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:15-214"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-:15_214-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFelton2023" class="citation episode cs1"><a href="/wiki/Mark_Felton" title="Mark Felton">Felton, Mark</a> (2023). 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London: <a href="/wiki/Cassell_(publisher)" title="Cassell (publisher)">Cassell</a>. p. 253. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-85409-465-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-85409-465-0"><bdi>978-1-85409-465-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Last+Days+of+Hitler%3A+The+Legends%2C+The+Evidence%2C+The+Truth&rft.place=London&rft.pages=253&rft.pub=Cassell&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-1-85409-465-0&rft.aulast=Joachimsthaler&rft.aufirst=Anton&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Flastdaysofhitler00joac&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-218"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-218">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Weeks, Russia's Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the U.S.S.R. in World War II, 126</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-219"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-219">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Alexander Hill, "British Lend Lease Aid and the Soviet War Effort, June 1941–1942." The Journal of Military History 71, no. 3 (2007): pp. 773–808. Accessed 1 November 2011.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Ellul" title="Jacques Ellul">Ellul, Jacques</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Propaganda:_The_Formation_of_Men%27s_Attitudes" title="Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes">Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes</a></i>. Trans. Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner. New York: Knopf, 1965. New York: Random House/ Vintage 1973</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFateev1999" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Fateev, Andrey (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://psyfactor.org/lib/fateev0.htm"><i>Образ врага в советской пропаганде. 1945 - 1954 гг</i></a> [<i>Image of the enemy in Soviet propaganda. 1945-1954</i>] (in Russian). Moscow: <a href="/w/index.php?title=IRH_RAS&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="IRH RAS (page does not exist)">IRH RAS</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%A0%D0%98_%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%9D" class="extiw" title="ru:ИРИ РАН">ru</a>]</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%D0%9E%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7+%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0+%D0%B2+%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5.+1945+-+1954+%D0%B3%D0%B3.&rft.place=Moscow&rft.pub=IRH+RAS%3Cspan+class%3D%22noprint%22+style%3D%22font-size%3A85%25%3B+font-style%3A+normal%3B+%22%3E+%26%2391%3Bru%26%2393%3B%3C%2Fspan%3E&rft.date=1999&rft.aulast=Fateev&rft.aufirst=Andrey&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpsyfactor.org%2Flib%2Ffateev0.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APropaganda+in+the+Soviet+Union" 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