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

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.
Subject:	Stalin, Joseph, -- 1878-1953 -- Influence. Stalin, Joseph, -- 1878-1953 Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za -- History. Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za. Propaganda, Soviet -- History. Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History. Popular culture -- Soviet Union -- History. Public opinion -- Soviet Union -- History. Ideology -- Soviet Union -- History. State-sponsored terrorism -- Soviet Union -- History. Ideology. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Political culture. Politics and government Popular culture. Propaganda, Soviet. Public opinion. State-sponsored terrorism. Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953. Soviet Union. Electronic book. History.
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. Print version record.
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

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Ideology, propaganda, and mass mobilization
The propaganda state's first decade
The search for a usable party history
Personifying the Soviet "experiment"
The cult of heroes and heroism
The pageantry of Soviet patriotism
The popularity of the official line
The murder of the usable past
Mass culture in a time of terror
Public opinion imperiled
The ossification of the official line
Stalinist mass culture on the eve of war
Conclusion: The propaganda state in crisis.