2007-03-27 09:36:35 · 4 answers · asked by bballdud123 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Any and all available. Media was under complete government control. All media outlets were government property; private enterprise (not just in the media industry, but anywhere) was a crime punishable by imprisonment. The official party line was that any form of art could be used for propaganda, and it was. Newspapers, books, radio, film, posters, lapel pins, architecture sculpture, painting...
2007-03-27 09:47:08 · answer #1 · answered by NC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just one example: The film by Sergei Eisenstein "The Battleship Potenkin" was made as a propaganda tool. Sergei Eisenstein in USSR was an equivalent of Leni Riefenstahl in Nazi Germany.
2007-03-27 17:03:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
See for yourself. Here are some sites with propaganda art and posters from the Stalin-era USSR:
http://www.stanford.edu/~gfreidin/courses/147/propart/propart.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFcKJGFsG2E
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/cult.html
http://www.ahoy.tk-jk.net/PosterImages/Stalin_leading_his_nation_to_Victory.jpg
http://college.hmco.com/history/west/mosaic/chapter15/images/stalin.jpg
2007-03-27 16:47:58 · answer #3 · answered by parrotjohn2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just at a guess, listen to/read Hugo Chavez.
2007-03-27 16:47:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋