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A 15 page paper dealing with the use of propaganda in the Soviet system. Soviet propaganda is examined through chronological development from 1917 to post-Cold War. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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of ideas and information for the purpose of inducing or intensifying specific attitudes and actions. Because propaganda is frequently accompanied by distortions of fact and by appeals to passion
and prejudice, it is often thought to be invariably false or misleading. This view is relative, however. Although some appear faithfully as objective observers. A lawyers brief is as much
propaganda as a billboard advertisement. Education, whatever its objective, is a form of propaganda. The essential distinction lies in the intentions of the propagandist, be it a person or a
country, to persuade an audience to adopt the attitude or action which is given (Merriam-Webster 557). Soviet use of propaganda, moving from fascism to communism (Kaznacheev 50) certainly contained
passion and prejudice, and in light of historical fact, it is "misleading" at least, and "invariably false" at most. Napoleon Bonaparte once observed that "History is a set
of lies agreed upon." If the French ruler had witnessed the Soviet Union in the days of Joseph Stalin, he might have changed his statement. For in Stalins propaganda state,
history was not "agreed upon" -- only one man, Stalin himself, decided which fictions would masquerade as historical fact (Elliston ppg). Stalins reign of terror cast a wide net (Gary
130) and used all the weapons of the modern dictatorship: surveillance, false arrests, show trials, hellish labor camps and summary executions. The dictators iron grip on the state also squeezed
mercilessly hard on the countrys official (and only legal) history. After his victims were robbed of life, Stalin then stole away their identities, using perhaps the most devastating tool of
totalitarian regimes: censorship. Under Stalin, the institutionalized denial of information in the Soviet Union was so complete that, as reported in the introduction, of The Commissar Vanishes:
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