Media Propagada and Religion in Russia

Media, Propaganda and Religion in Russia 

Media 

• Decree on Press in November 2017, gave government powers to close any newspapers it wanted 
• Also created a state monopoly on advertising in 1917 
• Under Stalin any works of Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev was banned from 1928 
• From 1928 Glavlit controlled any economic data that was released to public 
• Under Khrushchev films such as Ballad of a Soldier (1959) focused on achievements of ordinary men not Stalin 
• Also produced more consumer magazines, more liveral approach 

Cult of Personality 

• Cult of Lenin in the early years
• Poster in 1920, A Specter is Haunting Europe
• Cult of Stalin, Pravda referred to him as Vozhd, unlimited leader 
• From 1945 known as generalissimo, general who defeated…