Censorship run by the rulers of the USSR began when the state and church separated in 1918, and lasted until the late 1980’s. The Glavit, which was the censorship office, was created in 1922. Its purpose was to reject everything that opposed the new Soviet rule and that would “corrupt” its citizens’ minds to resist authority. The Glavit controlled disapproving newspapers, visual and performing arts, and all written publications. There was much hope that a municipal society would develop after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Unfortunately, this problem is left unsettled. The Russian Federation still suffers from inadequate freedom of the press, politics, and artistic interpretation. Joseph …show more content…
Vladimir Lenin, a Bolshevik leader, wanted to manipulate the values of the citizens so that it would be easier to create centralized political control. CPSU thought that this was necessary for governing Russia. There was only one form of art that was accepted in the USSR and that was “Socialist Realism”. This form of art portrayed the Soviet Union positively and was supposed to encourage the continual improvement of the country according to Marxist-Leninist dogma. Media, literature, and the arts have suffered under this practice. The officials enforced censorship on official political, military, economic, and social unions. Also, to ensure that there was a complete review of information reaching the public, writers and authors were self-censored. In the late 1980’s, the Soviet Union’s control over information was more lenient. Newspapers, radio, TV, literature, and journals were still censored because it was not on the internet. During the 1970’s and 1980’s, the advancement in technology was interfering the government’s tyranny over the media, which allowed the Russians to send and receive media globally. Closer to the fall of the Soviet Union, the themes of news, magazines, TV, literature, music, films, and journals have changed. The party was more tolerable and encouraged the attempt to …show more content…
Journalism was used to encourage the masses and to spread communist ideas. For doing Stalin’s dirty work, the journalists were awarded job security and rewards. Later, under the command of Mikhail Gorbachev, journalists used mass media to reveal the crimes committed during the communism generation. They also helped support for improvement of the Perestroika and Glasnost era, and also to cut down on political oppositions. During the late Soviet and early post-Soviet times were considered to be the “golden years” for journalists. There was freedom of political and trading markets, and they were able to report on anything they thought that was meaningful. The media outlets approved tabloid journalism during this time and the abundance of the freedom of the media was