Development of the Stalin Cult

Cult of Personality, Propaganda, Arts,

Who was seen as the founder of socialist realism in Literature?

Maxim Gorky

Pravda ran collumns on ‘___ __’, describing new factories and ‘___ ___’, highlighting the hardships and unemployment of the West.

• With Us

• With them

The Moscow Metro opened in ___, and was described as a ___ __ ____

• 1935

• palace of light

The _____ __ _____ was designed to be the tallest building in the world, topped with a gigantic statue of ____

• palace of soviets

• lenin

Released in ___ ____, Eisenstien’s film _____ __ ____ glorified collective farming

• Nov 1929

• Old and New

The ‘_____ ______’ was published as the main historical textbook for all schools in ___, which exagerated the role of Stalin.

• short course

• 1938

The subject of History was changed to…

History of Soviet Success

peasants created their own ‘__ _____’ in their homes as a shrine to Stalin

red corner

From ___, all writers had to join the “____ ___ ____ ____”

• 1932

• Union of soviet writers

Traditional Russian great writers, such as ___ and composers such as _____ were promoted as the proletariat were deemed rational enough to relate to them.

• Tolstoy

• Tchaikovsky

In order to promote Stalin’s ____ values, folk choirs, museums of ____ and dancing troupes were established.

• national

• folklore

Military language was employed. during collectivisation to increase support for the socialist ‘____’ against the treacherous Kulaks.

offensive

In ____, ______ was extolled as the ideal worker-hero, and received _ Order of Lenin medals

• 1935

• Stakhanov

• 2

Young stakhanovites appeared on the cover of Pravda more than Stalin (___-_)

1937-8

The fable of __ ____ who denounced his father as a kulak was a popular children’s tale and made into an ____-

• Pavlik Morozov

• opera

Vera Mukhina produced ____ __ ____ ___ for the ____ World Trade Fair in Paris, which was a staggering __meters tall

• Worker and Kolkhoz Woman

• 1937

• 25

At the First ___ ____ ____ ____ ______ in 1935 , Stalin triumphantly declared that “life has become ____, life has become ____”

• All union Conference of Stakhanovites

• better

• Happier

Vladimir _______’s play ___ in Jan 1930 satirised the bureaucratic stupidity of the State under Stalin. He committed suicide _ months later

• Mayakovsky

• Banya

• 3

By ___, there were ___ as many pictures of Stalin in Moscow than pictures of Lenin

• 1933

• twice

How the Steel was Tempered was published in ____

1934