b) What were Gulags? 10. Read carefully the feature Investigation: on Stalin Explains Communism page 184. This investigation contains an interview with by the Joseph Stalin American in 1927. The interview was printed in Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia the Soviet publication translated into English Do Pravda. Pravda means truth. you consider Stalin’s interview Explain fully. truth”? “the 11. Read the poem by on page 185. Vladimir Maiakovskii a) Why would it have been so important to the to eradicate bourgeois Proletkult liberal ideas from children’s literature? b) How effective do you think Maiakovskii’s poem is in promoting the Soviet communist ideology? c) Do you think children would understand the overt references to communist ideology and to the criticisms of liberalism?
b) What were Gulags? 10. Read carefully the feature Investigation: Stalin Explains Communism on page 184. This investigation contains an interview with Joseph Stalin by the American Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia in 1927. The interview was printed in the Soviet publication Pravda. Pravda translated into English means truth. Do you consider Stalin’s interview “the truth”? Explain fully. 11. Read the poem by Vladimir Maiakovskii on page 185. a) Why would it have been so important to the Proletkult to eradicate bourgeois liberal ideas from children’s literature? b) How effective do you think Maiakovskii’s poem is in promoting the Soviet communist ideology? c) Do you think children would understand the overt references to communist ideology and to the criticisms of liberalism?
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