Propaganda Department Research Articles

Censorship of Agitprop in the Upper Volga press in the 1920s

Importance. The censorship of periodicals in the Upper Volga region during the New Economic Policy years is considered. The research of Soviet propaganda remains relevant in the context of studying the history of the USSR, political communication and mass media. Even in modern Russia, there is a request for the development of a cultural level using the mass media, in the implementation of which the experience of a century ago can help. The purpose of the research is to examine the mechanism for implementing the censorship policy of the Soviet state in the Upper Volga region using the example of the work of agitprop.Materials and Methods. Methods of system analysis, principles of historicism and scientific objectivity are used. The archival materials stored in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History are used.Results and Discussion. The country needed urgent and fairly profound cultural changes, and this had to be done not only by methods of combating illiteracy, but also by propaganda, including in the periodical press. Newspapers are a cheap and easy way to disseminate information, but in an illiterate country it is not very easy to use. The party’s propaganda department had to deal with this phenomenon.Conclusion. Conclusions about the significant intervention of the Agitprop department in regional periodicals in order to form an ideologically correct understanding of the world and the political situation in the country are formulated.

대한민국 임시정부 宣傳部의 설치 과정과 변천의 의미

In 1939, the Provisional Government established the Propaganda Committee(宣傳委員會), a non-permanent organization. Its activities, which had been active since 1942, were irregular, short-lived, and were mixed with the activities of the Foreign Ministry. Due to internal political changes, it was promoted to the Propaganda Department(宣傳部) in 1943. Therefore, the propaganda was separated from diplomacy, and began to have independence. However, Its activities showed a tug of war between the left and the right parties. As they reached a certain political consensus, the propaganda department was reorganized along with the machinery of government changes in 1944. so, the role of the department was expanded and strengthened. In this article, we reviewed the changing aspects of the propaganda department and confirmed that the changing factor was the change in the political situation within the provisional government. Here, it was possible to re-recognize that the provisional government was a political space where the interests of political parties were bound to coexist. In the propaganda department, left and right wings of the parties also balanced their power through political checks and consultations. As a result, it can be found that in the transition of the propaganda department, the left and right camps have built the internal capabilities of the provisional government by experiencing party politics within the government.

Deutsch-dänische Kunstbeziehungen 1820 bis 1920

Deutsch-dänische Kunstbeziehungen 1820 bis 1920

К ВОПРОСУ О СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИИ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ГОСАВТОИНСПЕКЦИИ ПО ПРОПАГАНДЕ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ ДОРОЖНОГО ДВИЖЕНИЯ

The article examines the norms of the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia dated De-cember 29, 2018 No. 903 "On the organization of the work of the State Inspectorate for Road Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to promote road safety" (hereinafter - the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia No. 903). Proposals are made to define the term "traffic safety propaganda", clarify the principles and forms of propaganda activities, organize training and direct activities of propaganda department employees. In the context of the subject area of the study, changes are proposed to the legislation on information and information technologies, on the protection of children from information, on the media, on advertising and on cinematography.

나치의 예술시대, 무용가 라반의 활동에 대한 두 가지 담론

The purpose of this thesis is to compare the differences between the two discourse on Rudolf von Laban's (1879-1958) activities under the Ministry of Propaganda in Germany from 1933 to 1937. To this end, 'Movement Chorus', 'The German Dance Festival (1934)' and 'Master workshops (1935)' organized by Laban were examined. The research method is a literature study, and research was conducted through domestic and foreign books, academic journal articles, internet articles, news, magazines, and book reviews. It is comprehensively described by considering the people around Laban, a series of events, and the situation of the times. It is meaningful in that it requires a contextual understanding of Laban's activities in Germany from a value-neutral point of view and studies by placing the two opposing discourses on the same line. The conclusion is as follows. First, the advocacy/critical views on Laban's activities in Germany are compatible, and in-depth research is needed. Second, it is necessary to understand the historical and political situation of Laban at the time and to understand his activities in the historical context of dance art. Third, it can be said that Laban's activities in Germany from 1933 to 1937 had both positive and negative effects on Laban's reputation in the future. Fourth, Laban and the propaganda department's different views on dance led their relationship to ruin. Finally, it is necessary to discuss the facts that have not yet been actively publicized about Laban's activities, and consider the intrinsic and extrinsic factors regarding the severance of relations between Laban and the Propaganda Department. The next question to think about is the question, ‘Can dance be controlled?’, and follow-up research is needed on this question.

Tragedy does not die: Creativity, emotions, and metaphor of revolution in the context of Chinese Revolutionary Drama

The decline of tragedy is one of the greatest tragedies of modernity. While many scholars exclaim that tragedy has been dead, Raymond Williams points out that it is not an eternal metaphysical event, but is plural and dynamic, a series of experiences, a tradition. Williams’ rethinking of tragedy provides a historical perspective on the cultural meanings. What matters are the traditions, emotions, and experiences of the time in which the tragedy is set, and the superimposed series of accidents and imbalances that create this type of tragic experience. That is, tragedy is not a static narrative of grief, but a textual creativity. This article will examine this argument in the context of Chinese Revolutionary Drama. The White-Haired Girl (Bai Mao Nv) is a famous tragedy born a hundred years ago in China that depicts the tragic fate of the poor. During the Communist Revolution, it was adapted by the propaganda department of the Communist Party as a tragedy of class oppression and extended to the whole country as a symbol of emotional mobilization. After 1978, the tragedy was forgotten as an outdated revolutionary legacy. However, the experience and texts of the The White-Haired Girl are still active in Chinese social networks today. This complex process is not only historical but also emotional. The aims of this article are the following: (1) to reveal the constructive relationship between creativity, revolution, and emotion; (2) to present the process of interconstruction between tragedy as context and tragedy as metaphor for revolution; and (3) to place creativity in the context of specific cultural and historical changes and observe its dynamic significance.

Thia Village was the Central Propaganda Department of Vietnam in 1946-1954

Each place has its history and is often associated with a specific socio-historical situation, and it stores documents and information about its creator’s material and spiritual culture. At the place Historically Tuyen Quang, the Central Propaganda Department (formerly the Party’s Propaganda Department) lived and worked on a hill in Thia village, Tan Trao commune, Son Duong district. The article presents the historical landmarks of the Central Propaganda Department of Vietnam from 1946 – 1954. The historical-cultural values preserved through the landmarks reflect the objective reality.

Why China Cares about Canada’s Indigenous Residential Schools: from Whataboutism to Internal Denial

This article examines how the Chinese government and its propaganda departments use genocide-related discourses to fulfil different political purposes at home and abroad. By criticizing Western colonialist regimes’ assimilation policies, especially Canada’s Indigenous residential schools, the Chinese diplomats apply the rhetoric of whataboutism to dodge the international community’s questions about China’s systematic persecution of Uyghur Muslims. Domestically, China’s state media intensively cover Canada’s residential school system and the colonial genocide against Indigenous people, trying to distract the audience from the state atrocities in Xinjiang and mislead the public to distrust Canada and other countries’ motives for accusing China of committing genocide. This media campaign is an example of the Chinese government’s “ yu lun dao xiang” (public opinion orientation) propaganda. It deploys a mirroring strategy that makes use of the agendas related to the genocides in other countries to cover up a genocide that is happening at home; it turns the residential school survivors’ trauma into a tool to defend a genocidal system that likewise takes the form of education. This strategy poses a new challenge to the diplomatic and academic work that aims to prevent genocide.

A program Based on Inflection Guidance for Developing Quranic Text Comprehension Skills of Students at the Imam AL-Azam University College


 
 
 
 ABSTRACT
 
 This research aims to: Develop the skills of understanding the Quranic text among students of the College of the Great Imam University, by preparing a program based on syntactic guidance.To achieve the goal of the research, the researcher undertook the following procedures:
 • A theoretical study of what came with previous research, studies and literature related to the current research topic.
 • Preparing a list of the skills of understanding the Qur’anic text necessary for students of the Department of Call and Rhetoric.
 • Preparing a test for the skills of understanding the Qur’an’s for students of the Department of Call and Rhetoric.
 • Preparing the program based on syntactic guidance to develop the skills of understanding the Quranic text among students of the Department of Call and Rhetoric.
 • Selecting the sample of the research number (40) from the Department of Propaganda and Publications, and distributing it into two groups: experimental (20) and control (20).
 • The application of the test of comprehension skills of the Qur’anic text to the experimental and control groups as a pretest.
 • The application of the syntactic-based program to the experimental group students, while the control group is taught by using the traditional program test.
 • Conducting statistical treatment of the degrees of pre and post application, and a number of results were reached. The most important of which are: The effectiveness of the program based on syntactic guidance in developing the skills of understanding the Quranic text among students in the Department of Call and Rhetoric.
 
 
 

Research on Knowledge Learning of COVID-19 Video Viewers: Based on Cognitive Mediation Model.

During the COVID-19 epidemic, social media has become the main channel for people to learn information related to the epidemic, among which information in the form of videos has played a significant role in the prevention and control of COVID-19. However, few studies have analyzed the process of knowledge learning of individuals through watching COVID-19 videos. Therefore, to explore the process of COVID-19 video viewers' knowledge acquisition, this paper constructs a knowledge learning path model based on the cognitive mediation model and dual coding theory. A sample of 255 valid questionnaires was collected to validate this model. The results of this study show that an individual's perceived risk of COVID-19 affects their surveillance motivation positively, while surveillance motivation further stimulates the attention and elaboration about the information in COVID-19 videos. Among them, attention positively influences the elaboration about the information. Ultimately, both an individual's attention and elaboration positively influence the knowledge he or she acquires from the COVID-19 videos. This paper not only verifies the hypothesized relationships in the original cognitive mediation model, but also extends the model to the context of video knowledge learning. Analyzing the knowledge learning process of COVID-19 video viewers, this paper can provide suggestions for government propaganda departments and relevant media to improve public knowledge of COVID-19.

Administering Disseminations: Film Exhibition and Censorship During the Great War in India

ABSTRACT This article explores the debates on film exhibition and censorship during the war years in India. The First World War (1914–18) was a watershed moment for the rapidly burgeoning cinema exhibition business in India. During the war, the government of India was caught by surprise at the pace with which the business had spread in the country. When the need for cinema propaganda arose in India, the government began to assess the nature of commercial networks the cinema exhibition companies had been able to build. Throughout the war years, the Government of India debated ways of intervening in the cinema business either by competing with the monopolistic cinema companies or by introducing censorship laws to control exhibition spaces and content. At the behest of the war propaganda department in London, the government of India found itself playing a reluctant arbitrator in a bitter competition between two influential cinema companies – Madan and Bandman – for the exhibition of Britain Prepared. This article further draws attention to the continuities between pre-war censorship debates and the war-year debates that led to the enactment of the first Cinematograph Act (1918) in India. By exploring the pre-war censorship debate about the exhibition of Johnson-Jeffries film, this article reviews a commonly held assumption in Indian film history that film censorship began in the country during the war years.

The Aesthetic Needs of the Masses: Cultural Work in the Aftermath of the Great Leap Forward

In the early 1960s, as part of a suite of policies intended to rectify the failures of the Great Leap Forward, the Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Culture launched new cultural policies that inaugurated a relatively liberal period for the arts in the People’s Republic of China. This article explores how these new policies reconceptualized the relationship between art and politics to emphasize the importance of providing audiences with experiences of enjoyment, relaxation, and aesthetic pleasure, as well as how state-run media reporting on the newly opened Museum of Chinese Art and its inaugural exhibition embodied the aspirations of these new policies by describing and imagining visitors indulging in the beauty of the museum and the artworks on display. By examining the brief expansion of what it meant for art to serve socialism in the early 1960s, this article reveals that cultural officials experimented with multiple configurations of the relationship between art and politics during the Mao Zedong era.

Приоритеты экономического развития Китая в современной официальной идеологии

The official interpretation of the priorities in China’s economic development that influences searches in economic theory is rooted in generalization of practical experience. The study of this mechanism can deepen our understanding of the relationship between ideology and economic theory in today’s China. This article analyzes the evolution of “Xi Jinping’s economic thought” since the second half of the 2010s. Its basic components are related to economic governance, national development priorities and economic policy-making. The author supposes that an objective need to develop an all-embracing ideology of China’s economic development is motivated primarily by the deterioration of external conditions along with depletion of domestic growth factors. The adaptation of Chinese economic policy to these changes led the government to set new goals and strategies summarized in the form of “Xi Jinping’s economic thought”. The article focuses on the Study Outline on Xi Jinping’s Economic Thought published in 2022. The book was compiled by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and the National Development and Reform Commission responsible for planning China’s socio-economic development. The intensive propaganda of Xi Jinping’s economic thought gene­rated a demand for theoretical research aimed at elaborating its “scientific principles” to contribute into construction of Chinese economic theory capable of guiding the practice of national development. The article analyzes the relationships between Xi Jinping’s economic thought and the Marxist political economy of socialism as well as the legacy of the economic policies of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. It is concluded that the content of Xi Jinping’s economic thought will change following the emergence of new challenges in China’s economic development.

Disperzija radio-propagande na teritoriji okupirane Srbije u Drugom svetskom ratu

The paper reconstructs the actions of the Serbian Government of National Salvation in the field of the organization of the propaganda in the occupied Serbia during WWII. The occupation authorities intended to achieve the tightly controlled management of the national authorities' propaganda through the Serbian Propaganda Department of the Ministerial Council Presidency. The Government of National Salvation made a great effort in the field of supervising publications, film screenings and radiophonic shows. The main points of activity of national authorities in the field of radio propaganda were subordinated to German interests. The concept of radio propaganda was analyzed, as well as the German organization of the propaganda censorship apparatus and its influence on the work of the Serbian Propaganda Department in the field of radio propaganda. The content of the radio program and the activities of Radio Belgrade under German occupation were analyzed together with the example of the activities of the collaborationist authorities in the field of radio propaganda.

The CCP Information Order in the Early People’s Republic of China: The Case of Xuanjiao Dongtai

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) faced a major predicament. Since the new leadership did not allow free exchange of opinions, the problem was how to obtain reliable information. To deal with this dilemma, the CCP developed a two-pronged approach. Besides public news items that catered to the mobilizational aspects of party policies, it established secret feedback channels, the so-called neican 内参, or internal reference, bulletins. These were strictly tasked with separating facts from opinion to provide the leadership with an objective account of developments in China and abroad. Over time, a distinct system for the controlled circulation of intelligence, an “information order,” took shape. This article looks at one of the most important reference bulletins, Xuanjiao dongtai 宣教动态, edited by the Central Propaganda Department between 1953 and 1966, and traces changes in the bulletin’s international coverage over time.

Research on the Transformation of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

Research on the Transformation of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

WAS ČAKS A COMMUNIST (AT HEART)?

At the outbreak of World War I, Aleksandrs Čaks, then still Aleksandrs Čadarainis, together with Riga Alexander-Gymnasium, where he is a student at the time, is evacuated to Russia. During the Civil War, the young man ends up in Saransk, a city in the remote Russian province, where he gets actively involved in politics. He becomes a member of the All-Union Communist (Bolshevik) Party; works as the editor-in- chief of the local newspaper “Коммунистический Путь” (The Communist Road); publishes articles of political nature in it about the current moment, signing them with his initial (A); takes the position of the director of the Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Saransk District Party Committee; organises a celebration of the Anniversary of October Revolution; in a politics study group, presents a report about the Fourth International. So far, Čaks’s publications in the Saransk periodicals have been mentioned in the public space but have not been analysed; moreover, his report, the text of which has been luckily found in the collection of the Literature Museum, has never been mentioned before. In her paper, the author will analyse these sources and focus on the link between the left-wing political views of the young poet and his art. In addition, for the first time in Čaks scholarship, it has been established that the so called Antonov’s gangs, the fight against which the poet joined with a weapon in his hand, was in fact a mass uprising of the farmers in Tambov gubernia against the heavy tax in kind imposed by the soviet power. It has been hypothesised that young A. Čadarainis was informed about the suppressing of the farmers’ insurgency, led by M. Tuhachevsky, by using a particularly inhumane means – poison gases, which, for the first time in the human history, were used to fight civilian population.

Remembering a forgotten war: The Vietnamese state, war veterans and the commemoration of the Sino-Vietnamese War (1979–89)

This article argues that in the last few years the Vietnamese state and the Vietnamese Communist Party have upgraded the commemoration of a Sino-Vietnamese War (1979–89) that had fallen into oblivion after the normalisation of Sino-Vietnamese relations in 1991. The first part of the article analyses the way in which Vietnam officially commemorated the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of the war against China in 2019. Vietnamese authorities such as the Department of Propaganda and Edcuation stepped up the commemoration of the war, but in comparison with that of the war against the Pol Pot regime it was much more subdued and low-key. The second part of the article shows that the veterans of the Vị Xuyên battle in Hà Giang province where fierce battles had taken place between 1984 and 1989 have actively shaped the commemoration of the war by organising commemorative activities on the old battlefield and reaching out to state media and social media. This highlights the significance of ‘agents of remembrance’ in Vietnam who, along with the official Vietnamese ‘memory machine’, also make important contributions to the commemoration of the past.

중국 출판정책의 특성과 변화

This study attempted to explain the promotion system and changes in China's publishing policy during the 13th 5-year rule period (2016-2020) and the 14th 5-year rule period (2021-2025) through literature analysis of Chinese publishing policy documents, academic research, and reporting. First of all, China's publishing-related ministries continue to support the publishing industry and public libraries during the 12th five-year period, expanding reading infrastructure in rural areas, and support overseas publications. In addition, the reading rate of Chinese people is also increasing along with the increase in the publication of paper and e-books by domestic Chinese publishers. In addition, since the Central Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China became the responsible department of China's publishing policy from March 2018, China's publishing policy promotion system has strengthened its connection with the Communist Party and Xi Jinping's ideas and policy promotion and education. However, despite the ongoing difficulties of offline bookstores in China due to the discount competition of Chinese e-commerce companies, Chinese publishing ministries do not implement a book sales price system and only local governments in some administrative districts provide subsidies for offline bookstores. In addition, copyright infringement of overseas video content by some Chinese companies and the prohibition of publications criticizing China's political and social problems continue.

The Everyday Fears of the Country of the Soviets

This review analyses Dangerous Soviet Things: Urban Legends and Fears in the USSR, a book by A. Arkhipova and A. Kirzyuk that was published by the Novoye Literaturnoye Obozrenie publishing house in 2020. The research studies Soviet urban legends from the point of view of their typologisation and the description of the nature of existence and interpretation of the plots presented. The sources of urban folklore are reports of the KGB from the Soviet republics, case investigations, letters from Soviet citizens, and information from the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU. These documents reflect those events that caused the most acute social reaction: this manifested itself in the emergence and spread of folklore plots that caused changes in everyday behaviour. The authors refer to the experience of Western anthropological research and conclude that it is advisable to use a set of scholarly approaches (interpretive, memetic, and operational) that offer their own tools for working with folklore texts: this determines the methodological novelty of the work. Focusing on the definition of the genre of the “urban legend”, Arkhipova and Kirzyuk divide the collected material not only according to wider plots, but also according to the type of actualisation (the authorities’ initiative or “horizontally” spread in society) and functions (prevention, protection, agitation, propaganda). According to the reviewer, the book offers unique folklore material and universal ways to interpret such material.