Abstract

The role of the poster in the formation of Soviet propaganda cannot be overstated. For a long time it remained the main visual means of propaganda for utopian Communist society, contributed to the formation of attitudes and behaviour of people. Politics and art of the USSR interrelated and interdependent, and the use of art as visual propaganda promoted the political goals of the party and the leader. Another thing is that way affiliated with art often had less artistic value because it expressed an aesthetic experience of its Creator. The ratio of art and politics depends primarily on the definition of priorities in the Soviet Union this priority was politics, not aesthetics. Thus, the aim of this work is to study the posters, created during the 1920’s–1930’s. as historical sources and specific examples of visual communication aimed at the implementation of propaganda and ideological influence. And at the end we will be assured that the government of the USSR had mastered the technique of «brainwashing», and the art served as «ideological processing workers in the spirit of socialism.» Victims of totalitarian propaganda believed incredible – esclusivi system or communism in 20 years and not see the obvious – carrying out rapid industrialization, the famine of 1932–1933 and gross violations of human rights.

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