The image of Stalin established by official propaganda is, of course, of no help in evaluating his personality and defining the essence of what is, vaguely called “Stalinism.” Soviet sources ...

He dipped into Soviet Scriptures ... Zhdanov’s own son, Yuri, was chief of the scientific propaganda section. Malenkov, with Stalin’s backing, forced Yuri to publish a cringing letter ...

This outstanding collection of examples of Soviet-era propaganda is arranged chronologically from the Boleshevik Revolution to the Cold War arms race. Artist unknown. "There is a spectre haunting ...

In one of those memoirs, Svetlana writes that it was hard to think of her relatives as “enemies of the people,” as the official propaganda ... profound — on Stalin, the Soviet Union, and ...

Stalin’s collectivization of the countryside ... were essentially feeding back Soviet propaganda. Foreign correspondents were kept in Moscow, not permitted into the Ukraine, and were heavily ...

Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.