The Birth of the Propaganda State
Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917-1929

Peter Kenez's comprehensive study on the Soviet propaganda system describes how the Bolshevik Party reached the Russian people.

Peter Kenez (Author)

9780521313988, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 November 1985

324 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.48 kg

In this comprehensive study of the early development of the Soviet propaganda system, Peter Kenez describes how the Bolshevik Party went about reaching the Russian people. Throughout this book, Kenez is more concerned with the experience of the Soviet people than with high-level politics. The book is both a major contribution to our understanding of the genius of the Soviet state, and of the nature of propaganda in the modern world.

List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction: the Soviet concept of propaganda
Part I. The Civil War: 1. The press
2. The struggle for the peasants
3. Liquidating illiteracy in revolutionary Russia
4. The Komsomol in the Civil War
5. The political use of books, films, and posters
Part II. The New Economic Policies: 6. Political education
7. The literacy campaign
8. The Komsomol in the 1920s
9. The golden age of the Soviet cinema
10. The press and book publishing in the 1920s
COnclusion and epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Social groups [JFS]