Propaganda state in crisis : Soviet ideology, indoctrination, and terror under Stalin, 1927-1941 /

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Author / Creator:Brandenberger, David, author.
Imprint:Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, Stanford University ; New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 357 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11301283
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ISBN:9780300159639
0300159633
9780300155372
0300155379
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:The USSR is often regarded as the world's first propaganda state. Particularly under Stalin, politically charged rhetoric and imagery dominated the press, schools, and cultural forums from literature and cinema to the fine arts. Yet party propagandists were repeatedly frustrated in their efforts to promote a coherent sense of Soviet identity during the interwar years. This book investigates this failure to mobilize society along communist lines by probing the secrets of the party's ideological establishment and indoctrinational system. An exposé of systemic failure within Stalin's ideological establishment, Propaganda State in Crisis ultimately rewrites the history of Soviet indoctrination and mass mobilization between 1927 and 1941.
Other form:Print version: Brandenberger, David. Propaganda state in crisis. Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, Stanford University ; New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011 9780300155372