Ideological impact in the province of the 1920s: monopolization of the process

Abstract

The focus of the article is the initial formation stage of the system of ideological influence in Soviet Russia after the end of the civil war. The ensuing political, economic and social crises showed, among other things, the need to restructure and improve propaganda and agitation. That was recorded at the Х Party Congress. In national historiography, the party influence on the entire population of Soviet Russia in the 1920s is traditionally considered as the initial stage of the establishment of a system of such an impact. We believe that it is more appropriate to discuss this process, first and foremost, on the regional level, taking regional characteristics and opportunities into account. In addition, during the period under review, the party members were the first and the main object of ideological influence, followed by workers, the ―laboring‖ peasantry and their children. During the period under review, the final success was due not only and not so much to the creation and strengthening of the system of communist influence on the masses, but to the disappearance of alternative, or rather, the sources of these alternatives.