Thursday, November 15, 2007

Weblog Project: Russian Propaganda Poster

To influence the human mind, being convincing to others are important and can make a lot of changes. By using something such as propaganda, we are able to do that. Propaganda is used as a tool of spreading ideas to tell people what to think or do from only one person’s point of view. It can be found in many places such as the media, school, and government. Propaganda are usually used to support leaders of the country which of course leads us to limited freedom of speech and censorship. For that reason, propaganda is usually biased and contains many untruth facts which were basically used to brainwash people.



" Lenin - the leader of the revolution"

The message of this poster is that communism is better than the government right now and that Lenin, the leader of the revolution will start the reforming of the country. It is trying to get the people to support the communist part and their leader Lenin so that they will come to power. The picture in the poster is the event of the October revolution and the red flags which represents communism. The color black and white is very effective in the poster as will. What it said in the poster, "Lenin - the leader of the revolution" was meant for the people to trust and feel that Lenin is the right person to govern the country of Russia. It was not mistaken that the communist country now governs the country with Lenin as their leader.



"Lenin. October. Power to soviets. Peace to the nations. Land to peasants. Factories to workers. "

If the people supported Lenin in the October Revolution, they'll be given what they wanted. Like it said, if the power is given to the soviets there will be peace to the nations and lands will be given to the peasant. That was a new opportunity for people as well as factories for them. This was a new change that the people wanted. Before the revolution, they didn't have a change to do so and now what they wanted the most was for the war to end.
By motivating the people with what they want most made the people support and the soviets were successful. In the poster, the color red in this place as well as the hammer and sickle represents communism which was meant to be the answer to all problem. With Lenin in the middle, it shows that he's the person the people should chose because he will give peace, land, and factories to the people as well as changing Russia into a communist part which was meant for people to be equal.




"All power to soviets! Peace to all nations! Land to peasants! Factories to workers! Lenin, holding the Pravda newspaper "
The message of this poster is that communism is good and that people should support the new government. The poster is made for the people to support Communism and that if they do so there will be peace and land for the people. This was good because it is what the people wanted making them want to support the idea. The Pravda newspaper was the truth of what is happening. The color red is the color for communism and with Lenin in the middle shows that he is the person that is going to lead the people to a better life.




"All the power of our industry for the fulfilment of the food program! "

This poster shows that the communist party wants to make Russia become an industrial nation and to do that they need the people to work together. To be able to became an industrial nation, they have to gain the peoples' supports which meant that the people had to cooperate and work together as they're told. The fulfilment of the food program was for the people that were starving. If this works, they would produce more food and with the people's support they were able to do that. The man in the middle shows the inviting of peoples' support. Buildings and factories behind represents the idea of becoming an industrial nation with
people under control.



"The victory of the [Great] October [Socialist Revolution] - the most important event of the 20th century. Peace! Bread! Land! Worker (the name of newspaper). "

After the revolution, the reforms were done. Peace, land, and bread were being given to people and this was the most important event of the 20th century. This poster is made for the people to think that communism is the result of the problems and that they shouldn't oppose to the new government for they had given the peace that the people wanted. The peace, bread, and land idea motivates the people because it was what the people wanted. The red color represents communism and the people in the poster represents the soldier in the revolution which was successful.


"The most important thing to us is to preserve peace. Peace declaration. All power to soviets! Peace to nations! Land to peasants! Factories to workers!"

The message of this is that the revolution will help bring the war to an end and land to the peasants. This poster is trying to convince the people to support communism by giving reasons such as ending the war and giving land to peasants which is what people wanted. Peace to nations, land to peasants, and factories to workers means that this is their aim if the revolution was successful. It motivated the people a lot because those were the main stuff that they wanted. The color reds represents communism showing that if the people support, that 's what they're going to do because communism was meant for the people to be equal and to do that they'll be given what they wanted.


All of the poster are in the period of time during the Russian revolution. During the 20th century, propaganda are used basically to brainwash people. During the rising power of the Soviet Union, the propaganda were all over the place and the message is mostly for people to support the new government - communism. To motivate the people, they used messages that people want to happen such as the peace to nations, land to peasants, and factories to workers. Those are all of the things that people want. Another slogan was also "Peace! Land! Bread!". All of that were what the people wanted at that time and for that to happen, they were willing to support making the revolution successful.

Source: http://posters.nce.buttobi.net/

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