2. Objectives
• Education
• The arts
• Impact of Stalin’s control over culture
• Cult of personality
3. How did Stalin control culture?
Through education
• Changing of history to focus on importance of
Lenin and Stalin.
• Strict discipline in schools for schooling and
teaching population.
• Form of propaganda
4. How did Stalin control culture?
Through the arts
• Only writers, artists and musicians who made
art praising Stalin could remain in their jobs.
5. Impact of Stalin’s control over
culture
• Stalin forced authors and artists to depict him
in good light.
• Act as propaganda
• Lack of variety in the arts
6. Cult of personality
• Stalin was portrayed as a fatherly, cheerful and
popular man.
• Pictures and statues were almost everywhere.
