To the Goals of Soviet Propaganda in the After WW II Period (Based on L. Z. Mekchlis’ Archives)

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Maksim I. Babyuk

PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor at the Chair of History and Legal Regulation of Domestic Media, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: mbabyuk@yandex.ru

Section: History of Journalism

The author analyses the changing of the Soviet propaganda during the first post war years making use of rare archival documents from the personal collection of Lev Mekhlis – one of the Soviet ideologist of the post war period. The collection of documents is kept in Russian State Archive of Social and Political History.

Keywords: ideology, propaganda, L. Z. Mekhlis, post-war conditions