Ten Days that Shook the World. This work featured an introduction by Lenin himself. It romanticized the Bolshevik Revolution. Many other foreign writers helped legitimize the revolution, most notably H.G. Wells. (The Encyclopedia of Propaganda 677)As mentioned earlier Lenin used all facets of society to aid the flow of propaganda. By 1918 all schools in the Soviet Union were completely controlled by the state. A special agency called, "Pioneers" was set up in 1922 to help "train" Soviet children and ensure that they are properly prepared to become good communists. A primary focus of the "Pioneers" was to substitute atheism for the Russian Orthodoxy. Lenin also set up courts, known as agit-courts, that were held in a public forum. These courts were intended to display the activities of the enemy. The Communist party newspaper, Pravad, was established in order to monitor the distribution of press and to spread the good word of Communism. All these aforementioned propaganda tactics were created and utilized with one specific goal in mind. Lenin set out to create a "New Soviet Man". Which is a disciplined proletariat atheist socialist. Lenin died in 1924, this opened the door for a new leader to take control. That leader was Joseph Stalin. Stalin gained a full Lenin-like dictator status by 1929. To fully achieve this status he, in the grand Soviet tradition, had to completely eliminate his opponents. His main opponent was Leon Trotsky. After a few years of bitter struggling with Trotsky and his followers, he eventually had Trotsky murdered. Stalin also rid the Soviet regime of all Trotsky’s followers. Stalin proceeded to remove Trotsky from all Soviet history records, referring to him only as "Judas" Trotsky. The irony is that an supposedly atheist leader used a biblical traitor as a reference to his rival. One of Stalin’s main strategies to attain power was his allegiance to Lenin. He issued an address to th...
