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The birth of the propaganda state: Soviet methods of mass mobilization, 1917-1929

Peter Kenez 1985 © Cambridge University Press
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  • 9780521306362 (hardcover)
  • 9780521313988 (paper)
  • 9780511870392 (ebook)
Subject
  • European: Russia & Eastern
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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page vii)
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Introduction: The Soviet concept of propaganda (page 1)
  • Part I. The Civil War (page 19)
  • 1 The press (page 21)
    • The prerevolutionary press (page 21)
    • The prerevolutionary Bolshevik press (page 25)
    • 1917 (page 29)
    • The suppression of the non-Bolshevik press (page 35)
    • The Soviet press during the Civil War (page 44)
  • 2 The struggle for peasants (page 50)
    • The oral-agitation network (page 51)
    • Agitational trains and ships (page 58)
    • The Whites, the church, and the Bolsheviks (page 63)
  • 3 Liquidating illiteracy in revolutionary Russia (page 70)
  • 4 The Komsomol in the Civil War (page 84)
  • 5 The political use of books, films, and posters (page 95)
    • Books (page 96)
    • Films (page 104)
    • Posters (page 111)
  • Part II. The new economic policies (page 119)
  • 6 Political education (page 121)
    • Glavpolitprosvet (page 121)
    • The political school system (page 128)
    • The village reading room (page 134)
  • 7 The literacy campaign (page 145)
    • 1921-4 (page 146)
    • ODN (page 153)
    • 1925-9 (page 156)
  • 8 The Komsomol in the 1920s (page 167)
    • The composition of the Komsomol (page 168)
    • The Komsomol in the villages (page 177)
    • The school for communism (page 185)
    • The pioneers (page 190)
  • 9 The golden age of the Soviet cinema (page 195)
    • The organization of the film industry (page 197)
    • Films, 1925-9 (page 206)
    • The audience (page 219)
  • 10 The press and book publishing in the 1920s (page 224)
    • Newspapers (page 224)
    • Book Publishing (page 239)
  • Conclusion and epilogue (page 251)
    • The Soviet methods of mobilization (page 251)
    • Epilogue (page 256)
  • Notes (page 261)
  • Glossary (page 286)
  • Bibliography (page 289)
  • Index (page 304)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
FA 64.4 (Spring. 1986): 885 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20042739
HIST 73.237 (Feb. 1988): 181 http://www.jstor.org/stable/24416024
JGO 35.2 (1987): 310 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41047934
SS 39.2 (Apr. 1987): 332 http://www.jstor.org/stable/151148
SR 45.4 (Winter. 1986): 741-743 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2498352
AHR 93.2 (Apr. 1968): 467-468 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1860024
RR 46.1 (Jan. 1987): 100 http://www.jstor.org/stable/130067
CSP 28.3 (Sept. 1986): 319-320 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40868627
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