Introduction: Ideology, propaganda, and mass mobilization -- The propaganda state's first decade -- The search for a usable party history -- Personifying the Soviet "experiment" -- The cult of heroes and heroism -- The pageantry of Soviet patriotism -- The popularity of the official line -- The murder of the usable past -- Mass culture in a time of terror -- Public opinion imperiled -- The ossification of the official line -- Stalinist mass culture on the eve of war -- Conclusion: The propaganda state in crisis.
Series:
The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
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