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Stalin Takes Care of Each of Us from the Kremlin: Obligation and Gratitude in Stalinist Political Posters

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2013

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Pisch, Anita

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Izdatel'skii Dom Sankt-Peterburgskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta

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The image of Stalin in Soviet posters from the 1930s to 1953 bears but superficial resemblance to the man Iosif Djugashvili. Stalin's image operates in an ideal and allegorical realm which is more concerned with depicting reality as it should be, than as it actually is. Propaganda posters have a didactic function, and posters on the themes of obligation and benefaction reflect the joys of the imminent communist utopia, highlight core Bolshevik values, and model the appropriate relationship between citizens and the State as embodied in the persona of the leader.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/263987

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Modern History of Russia (Noveishaya Istoriya Rossii)

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2099-12-31

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