Stalin cult

• Stalin portrayed as:

  • Leader, guide, successor to Marx, Engels and Lenin, father figure, true bolshevik
• Literature, the arts and socialist realism:

  • Had to support Stalins view of socialism
  • From 1932 all writers had to be in the union of soviet writers
  • Socialist realism - soviet life moving towards an ideal future
• How the steel was tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky
• Propaganda:

  • Schools had pictures of Lenin and Stalin
  • Lessons on soviet achievements
  • Pavlik Morozov denounced his father for helping Kulaks and he was then murdered by Kulaks and portrayed as a martyr by soviet propaganda