Radio propaganda in Process of Soviet Modernization of Society in 1930<sup>s</sup> in Buryatia

Abstract

The features of the formation and development of wire broadcasting in the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR in the second half of the 1930s are analyzed. On the basis of previously introduced into scientific circulation and new archival documents, the authors prove that in the context of the organizational and technical strengthening of radio, the development of mass-political and cultural-educational propaganda, the state has made serious efforts to give the auditory means of communication the most important role of political and cultural education of citizens, increase their educational level and social activity. It is argued that at the end of the 1930s, the activities of the Republican Radio Committee for Radio and Broadcasting under the Council of People’s Commissars of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic were characterized by its growing importance in the field of self-education of citizens, enlightenment and cultural and political propaganda. It is shown that serious work was carried out to create an effective broadcasting structure and differentiation of programs, special attention was paid to the organization of radio propaganda in the Buryat language. In describing the experience of the first five years of radio broadcasting in the republic, issues of staffing the radio committee, its close work with the department of cultural agitation and propaganda of the Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks are touched upon. It is noted that the most important results of this period were an increase in the volume of wire broadcasting, an improvement in the content of political, musical, literary, dramatic and other types of broadcasting.