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Slogans and Soviet Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

Daniel N. Jacobs
Daniel N. Jacobs*
Affiliation:
Russian Institute and Department of Public Law and Government, Columbia University
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On April 21, 1957, the "Slogans of the CK KPSS for May 1, 1957" appeared on the front page of Pravda. This was the ninth list of Central Committee slogans to be issued following the death of Stalin. Its principal significance was the indication it gave that at long last Soviet slogan-makers had made an effort to face up to the moribund state into which the slogans had fallen. Under Stalin the slogas devolved into a formula-ridden repetition of stock words and phrases, ever growing more long-winded and dull. Gone were the brief, pungent slogans in the classic manner: "Who does not work— does not eat."

Type
Research Article
Information
American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , October 1957 , pp. 291 - 300
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1957

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References

1 Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

2 Cf. forthcoming study by the author: The May and October Slogans, 1918-1954.

3 The May, 1918, list, No. 5, Pravda, April 27, 1918.

4 The May, 1922, list, No. 17, actually paragraph 17, since this list, signed by Stalin, is unnumbered. Pravda, April 14, 1922.

5 The October, 1956, list, No. 38, Pravda, October 25, 1956.

6 No, 44,

7 No. 44, Pravda, April 21, 1957.

8 Workers in the electric power industry.

9 No. 43.

10 No. 46.

11 No. 47.

12 No. 47.

13 As is well known, such factors as the selection of punctuation and words in Soviet publications—particularly in one so widely distributed as the slogans—require careful study, for these choices are not made “by accident.“

14 No. 31.

15 No. 17.

16 The October, 1952, list, No. 10, Pravda, October 30, 1952.

17 No. 13, Pravda, October 25, 1955.

18 No. 11, Pravda, April 19, 1956.

19 No. 11, Pravda, October 24, 1954.

20 No. 15, Pravda, April 21, 1955.

21 No. 16.

22 No. 28.

23 Nos. 7 and 9.

24 No. 14, Pravda, April 22, 1953.

25 No. 16.

26 Ibid.