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Propaganda played a major role in the Bolshevik coup d'état of October/November, 1917, and continued to do so in the Bolshevik and later Soviet exercise of authority. In a nation that was largely illiterate, both Lenin and Stalin recognized the importance of communicating their ideology in the clearest and most vivid form possible. Political posters emerged as a means of political indoctrination as well as an art form; they made their way into the farthest reaches of first Russia and then of the Soviet Union. This medium of propaganda clarified the regime's goals, identified its enemies--both inner and outer--and engendered enthusiasm for building the new utopia. |
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mea culpa--no citations (what was I thinking? where was my brain?)