Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror Under Stalin, 1927-1941

by David Brandenberger

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300155379
• ISBN13: 9780300155372
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"