Explain Why Were The Bolsheviks
Why were the Bolsheviks convinced that imposing a state monopoly over the media in the short-term would inevitably lead to media freedom for everyone in the long-term?
Introduction
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
The Bolsheviks were the majority faction in a crucial vote, hence their name. They ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later in 1922 become the chief constituent …show more content…
Publications of the Communist Party and its affiliates the Communist International and the Academy of Sciences were exempt. Due to these rules of censorship any semblance of independent thought disappeared from public life in Russian. From 1918 onwards, authors and painters learned to practice the art of self-censorship because they knew that the government censor would be keeping a strict vigilance on the work. Despite this however, Stalin was to introduce even more severe censorship laws after 1928 to further ensure that the government controlled the mind and the social development of the ‘communist citizen’.
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[ 4 ]. Rabinowitch Alexander, Bolsheviks in Power, 2007 p46
[ 5 ]. The whites represented the main opposition to the Bolsheviks and consisted of Russian forces who opposed the communist party During the Russian Civil War of
[ 6 ]. Marx, Karl. 1976. Address to the Communist League. In I. Howe (ed.), Essential Works of
Socialism, 48-57. New Haven: Yale University Press.
[ 7 ]. Konstradt Rebellion - the rising of the naval town of Kronstadt in Russia by workers and sailors supporting the original aims of the 1917 Revolution against the new Bolshevik dictatorship.
[ 8 ]. Cheka was the state security organization setup by Lenin in the Decree on 17 december 1917 to uphold
[ 9 ]. Unger A, chapter 1 Article 1,
Introduction
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
The Bolsheviks were the majority faction in a crucial vote, hence their name. They ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later in 1922 become the chief constituent …show more content…
Publications of the Communist Party and its affiliates the Communist International and the Academy of Sciences were exempt. Due to these rules of censorship any semblance of independent thought disappeared from public life in Russian. From 1918 onwards, authors and painters learned to practice the art of self-censorship because they knew that the government censor would be keeping a strict vigilance on the work. Despite this however, Stalin was to introduce even more severe censorship laws after 1928 to further ensure that the government controlled the mind and the social development of the ‘communist citizen’.
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[ 4 ]. Rabinowitch Alexander, Bolsheviks in Power, 2007 p46
[ 5 ]. The whites represented the main opposition to the Bolsheviks and consisted of Russian forces who opposed the communist party During the Russian Civil War of
[ 6 ]. Marx, Karl. 1976. Address to the Communist League. In I. Howe (ed.), Essential Works of
Socialism, 48-57. New Haven: Yale University Press.
[ 7 ]. Konstradt Rebellion - the rising of the naval town of Kronstadt in Russia by workers and sailors supporting the original aims of the 1917 Revolution against the new Bolshevik dictatorship.
[ 8 ]. Cheka was the state security organization setup by Lenin in the Decree on 17 december 1917 to uphold
[ 9 ]. Unger A, chapter 1 Article 1,