Sunday, November 25, 2007

Propaganda

Propaganda is used throughout the whole world, Propaganda is posters or objects that are shown to people and also the public so they could persuade or gain influence from it. An example of propaganda is the car advertisement, usually when you see a car advertisement there would also be a girl or a pretty in it too. This is propaganda, because it is trying to persuade people that if you use or buy this car you would get the girls also. During the Russian revolution and the rise of Stalin many Propaganda posters were shown throughout Russia , to gain influence from the peasants around Russian so that the government or the leader would gain full support and would be able to control Russian easily. In this blog I would show you some examples of propaganda in Russia, and give a brief explanation of what each propaganda poster it’s about.

Socialism means peace and building up. This poster is trying to get people to turn to believe in socialism, it’s trying to get people to change from other types of government to socialism. The poster is telling people that if they support socialism they could improve their lives, and the war that is happening would stop. It conveys the message by the picture of the Soviet Union or the USSR, and also the picture of the cranes are showing that from turning to trust in socialism could bring them new life and they would build up a new Russia together. Also the red color was the color of socialism or communism. Another thing is that the crane represents agriculture, and the soviet symbol of the hammer represents agriculture. The effectiveness that the poster has is the pictures of the crane because it’s trying to get people to think that socialism would build up Russia again and to build building cranes need so it’s the effect part of the poster. (http://posters.nce.buttobi.net/211.htm)




Our Fatherland is in danger: Crisis of economy, Confrontation, Criminality, Separatism. The poster is trying to get the Russians to group up, because Russia where separated into many religions and nationalities which would cost the separation and discrimination that would happen, and it would be harder for the communist party to rule so they try to unite Russia together. Not only because of the different nationalities also is the trouble happening in Russia separating Russia into small groups. The posters conveys its message by showing hands pulling the Russian flags which are causing it to rip apart into small bits and pieces which is used to represent the separation into little groups inside Russia. The thing that is very effective about the poster is the flag which is used to represent the country, and the hands which are use to represent the causes which shows clearly what the poster is trying to tell us, and want us to do. (http://posters.nce.buttobi.net/big/1240.jpg)

To a youth who is thinking about life: You need to take as a rule to try with all your might to not move away from Lenin. This person is in our human condition the most correct prophetic instance. The poster is showing Lenin or the leader of the communist party in Russian and the message of the poster it’s giving out the message that Lenin is a very good leader and he could help you in education, which could give you a better chance of improving your life. The poster also gives out the message that Lenin is the best person that is alive on earth, which would also help him be able to gain influence from the peasants easier. The poster conveys the message by showing Lenin as a good looking man which made him look like a good leader, and the small glasses on his face shows him as an educated person. The thing that is very effective about the poster is that the poster shows Lenin as a good looking man which the poster say he is like the best person of human, which because of his look on the poster would make people think that way also. (http://posters.nce.buttobi.net/big/1227.jpg)


Our era calls - forward! The five year plan calls - forward! The poster is trying to spread the idea of the 5 year plan which Stalin had used to improve the agriculture and industrialization in Russia. The poster is trying to get people to support the 5 year plan so that they could improve the industrial and agriculture in Russia, Stalin also said that if they support the 5 year plan they will be no more starvation and poverty in Russia. The poster convey its message by showing the man which is big and strong wearing red or supporting communist and the 5 year plan. It shows that if you support the 5 year plan you would be big and strong like the person in the poster. The thing that is very effective about the poster is showing the big strong man, because people were starving and having a hard time, but when they see this they would think if they support the idea of the 5 year plan they would be able to be big and strong like the man in the poster. (http://posters.nce.buttobi.net/big/0487.jpgi.net/big/0487.jpg)


We learn from Lenin... In order to lead, you need to know the job and to be a great manager. The poster shows Lenin or the communist leader, and the poster is supporting Lenin, and trying to gain support from the peasants to support Lenin to be the leader of Russia. The poster is telling that Lenin knows how to rule, and he also knows how to rule the country fairly. He could also know how to manage Russia to get it to a higher level, and help the peasants from starvation. The poster conveys its message by showing a picture of Lenin and trying to make the poster as simple as possible so the poster would be easy to read and understand, and still it also has some red to show communism. The most effective thing of the poster is that the poster is simple and it makes helps make the people understand the poster clearly which in a way could be very effective. (http://posters.nce.buttobi.net/big/0549.jpg)

All power to soviets! Peace to all nations! Land to peasants! Factories to workers! The poster is trying to tell us that Lenin will help them gain power, peace, give land to peasants, and work to the workers. The poster is trying to gain influence from the peasants and the other working class people, and its telling them if they want a better life or a better job they should help support Lenin and they will get what they want, and improve their lives to a better on. The thing that the poster is trying to get the people to do is to help support Lenin and the communist party. The poster conveys it message by showing Lenin holding the Pravda which was the newspaper he made to help gain support from the peasants, and also the red color in the poster shows the color of communism. And the idea of the poster was to spread communism. The thing that it’s effective about the poster is the message that is written on the poster, because it is straight forward which make it easy to understand.
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Propaganda is used in many parts of the world to gain influence or to get support from each of the part it is used. Propaganda had a major impact during the Russian Revolution, the rise of Lenin and Stalin. If there were no propaganda posters the Russian Revolution may not had be this effective, and also Stalin would not be able to have as much power as he had. The propaganda poster is trying to gain influence to support the communism in Russia. Propaganda is used for both good influences and bad influences. Some of them are lying to people to gain support from them but after that the thing that are shown in the propaganda are not true. So propaganda could be good and bad depending on what it is used for. After the Russian Revolution propaganda was used in many other big events, such as World War 2 were Hitler use propaganda to make people support him and to fight in the War.












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