How Does the Myth of Stalin Being Presented by This Image from 1939 Differ from Earlier and Later Mythic Presentations of Stalin?
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Josef Stalin (1878-1953) is known to be one of the major figures of the twentieth century.
He was one of the most significant leaders of the Soviet Union, (USSR) and was
responsible for the many changes that occurred in Russia during the 1930's. He lead them
from the mid 1920's until his death in 1953. This was also known as the Stalin era
(Pittaway, 2008, p.125).
When reviewing early propaganda released by Stalin, The images used normally appear
to show Stalin to be at the very forefront of every decision made, to be solely responsible
for everything achieved during the Stalin era. Early propaganda was designed to
popularise aspects of Stalins transformation (Klutsis, 1932, p.138) and to
encourage the workers to work harder and faster (Plate 1.5.1. Guminer, 1931, p.140),
something we see regularly repeated throughout the early Stalin era; Revolution from
above, 1928-34 (Pittaway, 2008, p.130).
The later images show more of a victorious theme, they depict Stalin, again at the
forefront of many of these images but appear to show a "look what I have achieved,"
theme. He is again appearing to show he was solely responsible for the the fight to
vanquish the drought of 1950. (Plate 1.5.4).
The image studied appears to show a grateful depiction of Stalin. The
image is said to have been a gift 'From the wives and workers of Kiev experimental
plant' (Plate 1.5.8). The Kiev experimental plant was set up for plant biological research,
in the push to industrialise agriculture (assignment booklet, 2013, p.25).
Stalin demanded that he be constantly praised, newspapers credited him with every
success, people applauded if his name was so much as mentioned, children were raised
to love Stalin more then they did their own families (http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
gcsebitesize/history/mwh/russia/stalinpurgesandpraisesrev1.shtml). This image (Plate
1.5.8) pulls...
Josef Stalin (1878-1953) is known to be one of the major figures of the twentieth century.
He was one of the most significant leaders of the Soviet Union, (USSR) and was
responsible for the many changes that occurred in Russia during the 1930's. He lead them
from the mid 1920's until his death in 1953. This was also known as the Stalin era
(Pittaway, 2008, p.125).
When reviewing early propaganda released by Stalin, The images used normally appear
to show Stalin to be at the very forefront of every decision made, to be solely responsible
for everything achieved during the Stalin era. Early propaganda was designed to
popularise aspects of Stalins transformation (Klutsis, 1932, p.138) and to
encourage the workers to work harder and faster (Plate 1.5.1. Guminer, 1931, p.140),
something we see regularly repeated throughout the early Stalin era; Revolution from
above, 1928-34 (Pittaway, 2008, p.130).
The later images show more of a victorious theme, they depict Stalin, again at the
forefront of many of these images but appear to show a "look what I have achieved,"
theme. He is again appearing to show he was solely responsible for the the fight to
vanquish the drought of 1950. (Plate 1.5.4).
The image studied appears to show a grateful depiction of Stalin. The
image is said to have been a gift 'From the wives and workers of Kiev experimental
plant' (Plate 1.5.8). The Kiev experimental plant was set up for plant biological research,
in the push to industrialise agriculture (assignment booklet, 2013, p.25).
Stalin demanded that he be constantly praised, newspapers credited him with every
success, people applauded if his name was so much as mentioned, children were raised
to love Stalin more then they did their own families (http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
gcsebitesize/history/mwh/russia/stalinpurgesandpraisesrev1.shtml). This image (Plate
1.5.8) pulls...