State control of mass media and propaganda under Stalin

Question 1

In the mid-1930s the works of which revolutionaries from the 1920s had to be purged from Soviet libraries?

Answer 1

Zinoviev
Kamenev
Trotsky

Question 2

What was rewritten under Stalin?

Answer 2

Soviet history was rewritten to remove the contributions of Stalin’s opponents and to emphasise Stalin’s role in the revolution

Question 3

The Soviet media was forbidden from publishing stories about…

Answer 3

natural disasters, suicides, industrial accidents or even bad weather in order to create the impression that the Soviet Union was a place in which good things happened

Question 4

Propaganda in the Stalin period focused on the…

Answer 4

leader

Question 5

The cult of Stalin turned him into a…

Answer 5

semi-divine figure, whose unique vision and unique wisdom would lead the nation to socialism

Question 6

Propaganda also focused on _____ Soviet workers

Answer 6

archetypal

Question 7

Socialist Realist art depicted Soviet people as

Answer 7

muscular, heroic, dedicated and beautiful, the perfect embodiment of the society that Stalin was trying to build

Question 8

Socialist Realist art depicted Soviet people as muscular, heroic, dedicated and beautiful, the perfect embodiment of the society that Stalin was trying to build - give an example of a piece of art that exhibited this

Answer 8

“The Worker and the Collective Farm Woman” (1937)