PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

Efforts to educate & “enlighten” society

Schools – for children & adults

Traveling peasant school

Worker’s university

Factory schools

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

Efforts to educate & “enlighten” society

Schools – for children & adults

Campaign against illiteracy

Factory reading room

Teaching peasant women to read

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

Efforts to educate & “enlighten” society

Schools – for children & adults

Campaign against illiteracy

Youth organizations

Young OctobristsPioneersKomsomol

Pioneers May Day Parade

Young Leninists, children of Ilyich

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

Propaganda

Viewed as “political education” work

Became inextricably linked with state

Efforts to educate & “enlighten” society

Soviet Propaganda Day – Knowledge to All!

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL (Agitational Propaganda Dept.)

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

The “Lenin” Propaganda TrainInside the agit-prop

train

Agit-truck

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

“Battleship Potemkin”

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Death to World Imperialism!

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Workers of the World Unite!

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Every blow of the hammer is a blow

against the enemy!

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

Hurry to beat the nobleman, and don’t forget the baron too!

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Imperialism and Religion

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Only the Red Army will bring peace to your farms and villages

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Ten Commandments of the Proletariat

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

A deserter from the labor force is an accomplice of the counterrevolution

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Never buy from private shops when you can buy from your cooperative

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Moonshiners get out of the country!(Maiakovsky)

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

The illiterate man is like the blind man

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Woman! Learn to read!

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Comrades! Children are ours and care for them is ours – help them to study

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Communism is Soviet power + electrification

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Long live the Komsomol!

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Knowledge & work will give us a new life

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Mothers, don’t abandon your

children

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Every cook must learn to run the state

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Down with abuse & punishment of children

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Free Women - Build Socialism!

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Educational work encourages cooperation

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Don’t give small children . . .

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Do you want? Then Join up!

PROPAGANDA AND THE NEW SOVIET STATE

AGITPROPOTDEL

Agit-prop trains, planes, boats, streetcars

Films & agitki

Posters

Cleanliness will preserve & strengthen

children’s health