Examples Of How Did Stalin Use Propaganda

This investigation will contend to answer the question “ How did Stalin use propaganda to help him gain power?”. This topic will focus on how he used arts and media and how that helped him gain power.I chosen this topic because I’m interested on how he used propaganda to build himself up in the eyes of people. It’s was amazing on how Stalin managed to brainwash the people into thinking he was the defender of the people and even though he was the one that placed them in concentration camps they still came back to him for help. Also how Stalin wanted to reshape the thinking and behavior of the soviet people by forming a Soviet Union of Writer which convinced all it’s members need to have social realism in their work.

Propaganda helped stalin gain power. Stalin believed that literature was a very powerful political tool and he was willing to get rid of writers who didn’t follow what he said.All of the Soviet writers had to change the thinking of
If he said any criticism to a writer it would destroy them” as quoted in Propaganda state in crisis by David Brandenberger.Theatre and film was used to support his regime and hatred his enemies.More than 68 films were produced in reply to the social realism. Also 10 plays were made to withdraw. In 1937, 60 plays were stopped from performing and 10 theatres closed in Leningrad and another 10 in Moscow and the reason why all this happened is because they didn’t respond to his social realism.Painting and sculptures duty was to