The propaganda posters

In Russia during Stalin govern the government, he have used propaganda to make the people believe what he wanted them to believe in and to see what he want the people to see. By using propaganda, Stalin had the power over the education of the people and their freedom of speech. Stalin limits the freedom of speech and limits their thinking. They also control the children’s education in school by teaching history with communism which the fact is biased and untrue. Propaganda was also spread by poster which may support Communist or against Communist.

http://posters.nce.buttobi.net/219.htm

Let us strengthen the class solidarity and cooperation of all communists of all countries in the struggle for peace and socialism. Banners say: Peace; Work; Socialism; Disarmament; For social progress; No racism... There are Marx, Engels and Lenin depicted on the flag.

The poster expresses the people’s support of Communism. The man in the poster holding the flag of communist government show his support to the Soviet party. The three leader of the communism is Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin who looked forward for the future in the flag. The influence of the man with the flag of communist influence the crowd at the bottom by the link of the man’s leg to the crowd and the size of the man show the powerful influence that the crowd receives. The eyes of the man looking down at the crowd show the caring for the citizen that they will receive under communism. The crowds also look at the same direction like Lenin, Engels, and Marx, which I believe is the brighter future that the three leaders have promise the crowd which is the citizen of the communism country that have different jobs, gender, and age. The banner that the crowd is holding show the support of communism by using red and the word that supports Communism. With this poster, people would want to support communism for the better and brighter future that the three leaders have promised. The poster emphasize the man holding the red flag and the face of the important leaders of Communism to show the influence that the people received, the choice of using less color to make red color shows up, and using less word which make the reader remember easier is the effective part of the poster.

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[I want] To live like Lenin, grow up to become a communist and to bring new fame for the country! The upper guy is teen Lenin, the lower a "pioneer"

The boy’s wish of becoming Lenin emphasizes the support of communism very much. The boy’s role model, Lenin, encourage the people to support communist party. The enlarge picture of Lenin’s picture show the influence of him to the boy. The boy’s uniform also indicates the support of communism which the uniform is colored in red. his eyes also give hopes and looks like he have a goal that he promise to accomplish them. I main message in this poster is that even young people expect communist to govern their country. His role model, Lenin, encourage people to support the communist and the use of making ayoung adult, the future of the country, wanted communist is very effective.

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All power to soviets! Peace to all nations! Land to peasants! Factories to workers! Lenin, holding the Pravda newspaper

The poster’s main idea was to point out the promise that Lenin have gave to the people. The word at the back of Lenin is the promise he made to the people which is to make soviet powerful, to have peace which at that time people want to get out of WWI, to give land to the peasant, and to make jobs for workers. These promise are all the popular wants of the Russian people at that time which to be able to gain these offers, people must support communism. At the hand of Lenin, he was holding the Pravda newspaper which is famous and gained a lot of support to the communist idea. Lenin holding the newspaper tightly showing the effort he will put in his promise which will come true which gave hopes to people around Russia to support communism not the provisional government at that time. The effective of the poster is the look of Lenin which has a reliable and the promises behind him emphasize the important of the offer that he is giving to the people.

http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/sov06.php
Capital: I will crush Soviet Russia in my fist!!! But... it only clenches its fist in impotent anger! 1920

The poster reflects the evil of capitalism. The image of a man wearing a hat represents the evil capitalism which has an ugly face and is trying to destroy Soviet Russia. The image worsens the belief of capitalism which many people at that time believe capitalism is evil. The image worsen the believe for the Russian people by making Russia a target of capitalism which make the people afraid because they are being the target and they need to protect themselves by being communist because in the right image show the protection of the communist from the capitalism by having many supports which fight against capitalism. This shows that people need to co-operate by joining communist to prevent capitalism in Russia. The use of cartoon is effective because they also attract children which also spread the idea more efficiently. The use of making Russia a target is effective since, when people are in target, they will try to protect themselves and with a solution shown in the poster, people will use the solution provide for them which is very effective

http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/sov08.php
What the October Revolution has given to working and peasant women 1920

The poster describes the situation after October revolution which has a woman as a main character in the poster. At the back of her, there is a bright sun and blue sky showing the brighter future after the revolution. In the hand of the woman, there is a hammer and on the floor there is a sickle showing the sign of communist influence. At the side of her, there is a library, a mensa, and worker club which shows the improvements and benefits after the revolution which was the education of people and a better living for people. She also wore good cloths which represent the wealth that the people get after the revolution. The poster using woman as the main character in the poster make woman plays more roles during that time. The poster makes woman have feel that they have more rights and opportunity to improve their live than before making them want to support the communist. The effectiveness of the poster is the uses of woman in the poster since it lure more women to become more interest in the poster. The colors of the poster are also effective since it makes the poster looks dreamy with vivid colors and it is attractive.

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Bread and friendship are our basis. The National Emblem is bound from the spikes. Bread and friendship are the most holy things for us. We are proud of it and it makes us strong.

Bread(food) and friendship within the country and to other country is the most wanted of the people in that time. By promising the people of what they desire is the best way to lure the people in for supporting the communist. The message of the poster that they are showing is that they are willing to make the people’s hope and desires come true by supporting them. As you can see, at the back of the picture, the symbol of the communism is over the world which they are trying to control over the world with the promise of bread and friendship. With the light spreading at the back of the bread and the soviet symbol showing how holy the promise is. The poster express the important of the people desire very much which is there effectiveness since people would become attracted to the poster and would even toughly support communism. The color of the poster is also effective since gold is the gold of richness, which makes the poster, looks important and worthy.

Conclusion

For my conclusion, Propaganda had shape many believe of Russian people. The communist government uses the attractive posters, containing untrue facts, to make sure that people are still giving them their supports. Government uses their bias facts to also spread their ideas to other countries. These posters made two different view points of communist which is to support or against. Government race with other artist to ensure their security of the people’s believes in communism. Even tough there is two different viewpoints about communism, both of them is effective in different countries and because it is not rare to find them, they are effective in different classes of people. Today commercial and advertise also use propaganda to persuade others to purchase their product

The Age of New Experience

During the 1930s the main problem in the decade was the Great Depression which sucked up the economies of America and other countries in Europe. It gives new experience for how to take car of their economy. Many farmers in the 1930s got experience from the dust bowl which was caused by the erosion of soil which the farmers made it. For entertainment, producer like Walt Disney also got new experience of making the first animated movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarf” which teach him how to make his others famous animated movie till today.

Event

The Great Depression (1929-1941)

The camp for the poor people in Washington to protest for the unpaid people http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture18.html


During the late 1920s early 1930s, America had a hardship on their economies. The causes of the great depression came from factories, who over-produce goods and invest in their industry a luring people to become interest in buying the factory’s stocks because the people but believe that the factory would have a lot of profit from the goods they made but instead it was a illusion because the product was over-produce so the producing is more than the consuming. Another reason is stock markets are buy in credits not in real money so the stock market usually was made by the credits People dumped their stocks as fast as they could in October 24, 1929, which was also known as the “Black Thursday”, since the stocks price alter wildly. The stocks continued to be sold out during the next Tuesday which was known as “Black Tuesday” which was the beginning of the great crash. During October 29 to November 13, stocks price have reach their lowest point and as a result, $30 billion was soak up from the American’s economy. During the early 1930, American loses their jobs and homeless was the major problem in the country. Many men were unemployed and some children have to be responsible for the money because their parent don’t have jobs. During this year, African-American people have the most difficultly life since the jobs that the black people used to do, have been give to the white people. During 1930 to 1933, the gross domestic product income, have dropped from $87 billion to $40 billion. President Herbert Hoover was blamed for the Great depression for his underestimate of it so people called the area where the homeless people stay, The Hoovervilles. Even though things are getting badly for the economies, some industries manage to find ways for money. People mostly use their money to make their life happier during the depression. Making benefits to the entertainments, oil, and cigarettes industries.

Source: http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture18.html, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevents/pandeAMEX05.html

Dust bowl

The Dust storm in Buffalo
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The dust bowl was caused by the erosion of the soil in the earth. With poor farming system, farmers didn't change crops in their plantation which is a technique to prevent the soil from erosion. When a drought accord, the dried land was blow in to dust and was blown away to the sky by the wind. The dusts accumulate in the air forming huge dark clouds covering the sky. As the dust moved through out The Great plain of America, The Dust storm picked up dust along the way towering the dust in to the air. The dusts storms damage agriculture in the South and the Central America where crops and plantation usually developed. Houses and crops where covered with thick layers of dust when the dust storm moved into the region. On April 14, 1935, occurred the most depressive dust storm which turns the sky pitch-black. The day was also known as “Black Sunday” which was later change to the Dust Bowl by the Press reporter.

Source: http://www.usd.edu/anth/epa/dust.html, http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html

Empire State Building (May 1, 1931)

The Empire State Building viewing up to the top.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Looking_Up_at_Empire_State_Building.JPG

Empire State building was completed in 1931. The building was 102-story high and was the highest building for more than forty years until the world trade center beats it. The Empire State was designed by an architecture named Gregory Johnson which the design took only about two weeks. The land was excavated in January 22, 1930 and the building started to be constructed in March 17(ST. Patrick day). There were 3400 people building the empire state and mostly emigrated from Europe. The building was opened in May 1, 1931 but because of the great depression, most of the office is not rent until 1950 when Roger L. Steven brought the Empire State building with the highest price ever paid for a single construction in the history.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building

People

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882- April 12, 1945)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The 32nd president who helped the economic problem in America and was the first America president to be elected three times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt#1932_presidential_election

During the 1930s, Roosevelt was elected as a president in 1932. He was elect after Herbert Hoover who leave problems from the great depression behind making Roosevelt have a hard time restoring the financial problem of the country. He made a program called the first “New deal” which help the unemployed people and restore the economies in 1933. The new deal was to encourage people to spend their money in investment and encourage the banks to reopen during the depression. He set up a program called the Civilian Conservation Crops (CCC) helped 250,000 unemployed people to do work on local project with salary. The other ones are Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA) which help the farmers and the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) which is to force the industries to have limits in producing goods and to have codes in each industry.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt#1932_presidential_election

Walt Disney (December 5, 1901- December 15, 1966) (Snow White & The Seven Dwarf)


Snow White and The seven Drawf was the first animated feature film which almost made Walt Disney Bankrupt

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Walt Disney, the great producer and animator, who was a co-founder of the Walt Disney Company with his brother Roy Disney. His first works was the Mickey and Minnie mouse and his friends with a cartoon series that make popularities to the Disney Company. Disney faced a new challenge when the new Max Fleischer’s cartoon, Betty Boop made a hit for theater audience. In the 1934 and the mid 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarf was produce with Disney’s early technique on making animations. The production needed a lot of money and needed to loan money from the bank. The total money in making Snow White was $1.5 million and it’s the first animate feature in the world.


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)

Amelia Earhart (July 24, 1897-July 18 1937)

Amelia Earhart the first woman to fly (In far distance)http://www.lawrenceartscenter.com/STB/AmeliaEarhart/i/EARHART.jpg

Amelia was born on July 24 1897 at her grand mother’s house in Atchison, Kansas. In her early life she was interested in airplane and in flying. When she was a student in Columbia University, She decided to move to California to join with her mother and father. She boarded on a open-cockpit biplane for 10 minutes and she started to interest in flying. "As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!" she said and searched for pilot to train her. Her trainer was pioneer aviatrix Anita “Neta” and train Amelia near the long beach with Neta’s old Canadian training plane. By july 1920 Amelia decided to purchase her own plane which was a Kinner airplane and called it “The canary”. In 1922 she broke the record of women’s altitude record of 14000 feet. Then she sold her plane and brought a car. She joined the Boston Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association where she invested money to make a airport and promote flying to women. In April 27, 1926 she was ask by Captain H.H. Railey to fly across the Atlantic. Captain H.H. Railey was asked by George Palmer to find a woman that would fly across the Atlantic. She flow to Ireland with Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon in a tri-motor airplane called the Friendship in 1928. Flowing across many countries, she became famous with the help of George pushing her in front to the press and supported her. She formed an organization for women pilots called the “Ninety-Nine”. In 1930 she broke many speed records for women and on February 7, 1931 Amelia married with George. On May 20, 1932 she decided to fly solo across the Atlantic with a smell of salt and a tomato juice to help her awake. She broke many recor from the flight. With planning for many times, Amelia Decided to fly around-the-world and on January 11, 1935 she took off with thousands of people cheering her and President Roosevelt but she fail. She decided to make the second flight and on June 27 1937 she fly off with her navigator Fred Noonan departing from Miami. She flew to many places like San Juan, Karachi, Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore Bandoeng, and Port Darwin. She flown 22,000 miles by the time she is heading to The Us and there are only 7000 miles left. On the way back, the fuel ran low and at last fell down to the ocean. President Roosevelt sent 9 navy ship and 66 airplane searching for her but there was no sign of her making people believe that she is already dead.

Source: http://ellensplace.net/eae_intr.html

Inventions

Pablum/Baby food (1930) Pablum's can in 1933.

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Baby foods were the most time saving and give nutrients to baby from six months to 2 years old. The first dried baby food was invented in 1930 which was called Pablum. It’s a cereal for infant which was marketed by the Mead Johnson Corporation. It was invented by three Canadian doctors in 1930. Their names were Frederick Tisdall, Theodare Drake, and Alan Brown. Pablum was invented for preventing rickets; a crippling disease in children, because of not having enough vitamin D. Pablum was a mixture of pre-cooked wheat, oat, corn, yeast, bone meat, and alfalfa which the my not cause allergies because it don’t contain egg, lactose, or nuts and don’t have side affect. The Pablum provides Vitamin A, B1, B2, D and E and also provides minerals for infants. Today in 2005, Pablum was marketed under the name of Heinz brand name.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablum

Electron Microscope (1933)

The electronic Microscope opened up much scientific knowledge to the world. The Microscope was used to study tiny organism or objects that we can’t see with our naked eyes. The first Electron Microscope was invented by German engineer named Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll which was based on the idea of Louis de Broglie, a French physicist. The studies of the microscope make Ernst identify the limited focus of light of the microscope to the object. Ernst developed the first electron lens which can focus electron instead of light which make the microscope magnify object with greater power. Even though it was not used very much, but the microscope can magnify 400 times. The electron microscope won a half Nobel price in physic.

Source: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9064460/Ernst-Ruska

The old model of the elecctron microscope during the 1930s to 1940s ( Not the one that ernst built http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Elektronenmikroskop.jpg

Others (Art, Music, book etc)

Famous Art work: “American Gothic"

The Painting of Grant Wood who got the idea of painting this painting when he visited his friend in Eldon, Iowa. The models and the house were not next togather when he painted it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Americangothic.jpg

One of the famous and well known arts in the 1930s is the “American Gothic”. The “American Gothic” was painted by Grant Wood in 1930. In theme of the painting is to symbolize the man holding a pitch-fork and his daughter for hand labor. At the background, wood painted a carpenter gothic style house symbolized the house during his visit in Eldon, Iowa. Wood used his sister, Nan, as a model for the woman in the picture and used his dentist as the man holding the pitch-fork. The picture “American Gothic” was first seen in the Art institute of Chicago and was put in to the competition during that time. The painting won third with a $300 of cash. The painting was put on newspaper by Chicago evening post then spread around America.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic, http://www.artinstituteshop.org/item.asp?productID=935

The Boswell Sisters (1930-1936)

The Boswell sister, Conne, Martha, and Helvetia and their album during 1930-1935.
http://www.singers.com/jazz/vintage/boswell.html





One of the greatest group vocal singers was the Boswell Sister. The group consisted of Conee, Martha, and Helvetia. Conee was the leading singer while the two Martha and Helvetia make the back up. They started working in a local radio station where they do many style of music playing classic and semi-classic. Because of their Harmonic vocal and different style of song they sang they were popular in New Orleans and beyond. During that time they worked daily in the station and recorded my songs in the twenties and because Martha was paralyzed from waist down by a childhood accident, she performed mostly with a piano or sit. In 1930 they made four records for the Okeh label where they started to be famous. Then they sign with Brunswick where they where the hottest vocal singer group in 1930-1936. Before they broke up in 1936, they were appeared in movie and series and enjoyed their 20th hits and many tours they made. When Martha and Helvetia broke out, Conee continued her career as a actor and sang solo. One of the famous song they made was “There'll Be Some Changes Made"

Source: http://www.singers.com/jazz/vintage/boswell.html



The Boswell Sister singing their song -"Heebie Jeebie" for "The Big Broadcast"(1932)

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Afn3Z-BWI


The Boswell Sister singing "Sleepy Time Down South" (1932)

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwByDFAHB74

The Grape of Wrath (John Steinbeck, 1939)

The cover of The grape Of Wrath which was publish in 1939 by the viking press http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:JohnSteinbeck_TheGrapesOfWrath.jpg

The grape of wrath was one of the famous books during the late 1930s written by John Steinbeck. The story was about the Joad’s family hardships during the great depression and the dustbowl. They moved around to find jobs and land in the United State along with thousands of people in Oklahoma. The title of the novel was given by John Steinbeck’ wife, Carol Steinbeck, who got the name from a song called” the Battle Hymn of Republic by Julia Ward Howe “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:His truth is marching on.”, this is one part of the lyric in the song which was considered as a patriotic song of America and was popular during the American civil war But later, the books were banned and burn by the citizen since it’s extraordinary to the event of the depression and criticize capitalism and the farmers. The book was debated and been study in the high school during the 20th centaury. The book, “The Grape of Wrath”, won the Pulitzer Price for the Novel and The Noble prize for the literature and was made in to film in 1940s starring Henry Ford and was directed by John Ford.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic

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