Propaganda state in crisis
Subtitle: Soviet ideology, indoctrination, and terror under Stalin, 1927-1941
By: David Brandenberger
Series: The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
Publisher: Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780300155372
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; State-sponsored terrorism; Soviet Propaganda; Popular culture; Influence; Ideology; Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za; Public opinion; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ideology, propaganda, and mass mobilization; title: The propaganda state's first decade; title: The search for a usable party history; title: Personifying the Soviet "experiment"; title: The cult of heroes and heroism; title: The pageantry of Soviet patriotism; title: The popularity of the official line; title: The murder of the usable past; title: Mass culture in a time of terror; title: Public opinion imperiled; title: The ossification of the official line; title: Stalinist mass culture on the eve of war; title: Conclusion: The propaganda state in crisis.