Kenez P. The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917-1929

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 324 p. — ISBN10: 0521313988; ISBN13: 978-0521313988In this comprehensive study of the early development of the Soviet propaganda system, Peter Kenez describes how the Bolshevik Party went about reaching the Russian people. Throughout this book, Kenez is more concerned with the experience of the Soviet people than with high-level politics. The book is both a major contribution to our understanding of the genius of the Soviet state, and of the nature of propaganda in the modern world.Introduction: the Soviet concept of propagandaThe Civil WarThe press
The struggle for the peasants
Liquidating illiteracy in revolutionary Russia
The Komsomol in the Civil War
The political use of books, films, and postersThe New Economic PoliciesPolitical education
The literacy campaign
The Komsomol in the 1920s
The golden age of the Soviet cinema
The press and book publishing in the 1920sConclusion and epilogue