The birth of the propaganda state : Soviet methods of mass mobilization, 1917-1929
Peter Kenez's comprehensive study of the Soviet propaganda system, describes how the Bolshevik Party went about reaching the Russian people. Kenez focuses on the experiences of the Russian people. 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 twentieth-century.
Print Book, English, 1985
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1985
xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521306362, 9780521313988, 0521306361, 0521313988
11812827
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.