Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even though this Proletcult school was doomed to fail, it did succeed in developing a more literate race, more susceptible to books and also, propaganda. In the 1920's, with his country facing an economic breakdown, Lenin instituted a New Economic Policy (NEP), a sort of free enterprise economy. Coinciding with this economic easing of control, there was a new boom in creativity. Russian writers began to experiment with different types of forms, visited other countries, and even wrote books about other countries...
Except for the war-period, when the Russians reintroduced folklore into their literature to arouse national patriotism, this basic Socialist Realism, with its tedious patterns of thought, has persisted. The basic philosophy of the Soviet Union is utilitarian--a realistic novel is easiest to read, safest for propaganda, and therefore the best. The Soviet Union is afraid of thinking in contradiction to the regime. A James Joyce or Franz Kafka would be unknown in Russia today--he'd be too hard to read, besides being called "intellectual-bourgeois...
...second look, the surprise of European and Asian diplomats over Chou's rejection was unjustified. Though the U.N. invitation gave the Communists a propaganda opportunity-and a long-range chance to neutralize Formosa-the rigid logic of Peking's position forbade them to take it. The U.S. State Department had correctly guessed Red China's response...
Though meetings of the Central Committee of the U.S.S.R. are almost never mentioned publicly, on this occasion all the resources of Soviet propaganda were thrown into publicizing the address of the party's publicity-minded first secretary, Nikita Khrushchev. To Russians, the news could not have been very cheering: the accent was on failures ori the farm and the inadequacy of Soviet industry...
...Alchemist. One of the most controversial issues about Jung-outside psychiatry-concerns Nazi Germany. Some of his writings about race have been abused by others for racist propaganda. Chiefly because he held the editorship of a German psychoanalytic journal during the Nazi regime (his co-editor at one time was a relative of Hermann Göring), Jung has sometimes been accused of Nazi sympathies. Jung's position: as a foreigner of renown, he merely took the job to safeguard what he could of German psychiatry...