Soviet election campaigns as a means of indoctrinating society (on the example of the Ukrainian SSR in the post-war period)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2018.04.084Keywords:
Soviet propaganda, forms and methods of pre-election agitation, Ukrainian SSR, Western Ukrainian region, post-war period.Abstract
The article covers the forms, methods and content of the pre-election propaganda activities of the post-war period in the Ukrainian SSR. The role of election campaigns in the system of the Soviet propaganda machine is pointed. The leading role of the Communist Party in organizing and conducting agitation, which transformed the process into a monopoly ideological campaign is determined. A special attention was paid to government factors before conducting electoral campaigns in the western regions of USSR. The common and distinctive features of election campaigning in the eastern and western Ukrainian regions of the Ukrainian SSR are determined, and the efficiency of their influence on the consciousness of the population is estimated. The main factors of the rejection of pre-election propaganda by the inhabitants of Western Ukrainian territories are the experience gained by them in European parliamentary structures and the activities of the Ukrainian national liberation movement.
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