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Propaganda Analysis
English 2 Honors
Propaganda
• A technique that is used to influence actions or
beliefs of a large number of people.
• Forms: written or Spoken
• It appeals to your EMOTIONS rather than
reason
• often presents facts selectively
• While its original definition/intention was meant
to be neutral (i.e. public health
recommendations, encouraging voting in the
election) it now has a negative connotation since
it is used in a manipulative manner
Propaganda Techniques
Loaded Words and Images
– Words like PATRIOTISM and TRAITOR: loaded
due to their connotations
– Images like babies, family reunions, and sunlit
meadows appeal to emotions
Slogans
Short, catchy phrases
“Four legs good, two legs bad”
“I Have a Dream”
Propaganda Techniques
Repetition
○ Repeating something again and again will help
you learn and recognize them
○ The more you hear it, the more you will believe it
Appeal to basic needs, desires, and fears
○ Emotional Needs: love, security, feeling
worthwhile
○ Fears: violence, isolation, disease, and death.
How Propaganda Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=HU_BueZZNd8
St George (Leon Trotsky). Poster by Victor
Deni, 1920.
How is the imagery
used to characterize
Trotsky?
► What symbols are
present in the
poster?
► What time period is
alluded to? Why?
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Trotsky on Guard! Coloured lithograph
by D. S. Moor, 1920/1.
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Compare and contrast
the imagery here with
the previous slide.
How would the leader
here be different?
V. I. Ulianov (Lenin) Coloured Lithograph by A. I.
Strakhov, 1924
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What type of imagery
is used to characterize
Lenin? How would you
characterize him?
How is this
characterization of
leadership different
from Trotsky?
Klutsis, Gustav
Millions of qualified workers for the 518 new
factories, 1931
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How do we know this is
the proletariat?
Which sections are
represented?
How is the proleteriat
represented?
What are the similarities in
imagery between the
proletariat and the
leadership posters?
Designer unknown, 1920
Literacy is the path to communism
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What is the subject?
What is the message?
How does it
accomplish this
message through
allusion and imagery?
Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House collective, 1969
Forging ahead courageously while following the great leader Chairman
Mao
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How is Mao’s visual
representation similar
to/different from
Trotsky/Lenin?
What techniques
resonate between the
two visuals?
Designer unknown, 1968
The Revolutionary Committees are good
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What type of leader is
Mao based on this
depiction? (pay
attention to light,
etc…)
What sections of
society are represented
here?
Designer unknown, ca. 1961
Let's do our job!
What message is
relayed here?
How?
► How is this Cuban
representation
similar to/different
from the Russian
representation?
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Poster: "Workers of the Mind, of the Fist, Vote
for the Front Soldier / HITLER!"
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Who is being
appealed to in
the poster?
How is the
imagery and
message
similar
to/different
from the
Russian
poster?
Page from an antisemitic coloring
book
One page of an antisemitic
coloring book widely distributed
to children with a portrait of a
Jew drawn by the German
caricaturist known as Fips. In
the upper left hand corner is the
Der Stürmer logo featuring a
Star of David superimposed over
a caricature of a Jewish face.
The caption under the star
reads: "Without a solution to the
Jewish question, there will be no
salvation for mankind.“
► How does the image
characterize Jewish people?
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Compare and contrast the two
pictures.
"Women! … Save the German family.
Vote for Adolf Hitler!"
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Poster by Felix Albrecht.
The text on the poster
reads: "Women! Millions of
men without work. Millions
of children without a
future. Save the German
family. Vote for Adolf
Hitler!“
How does the imagery
(facial expressions,
position of subjects,
colors) aid the message?
Cover of an antisemitic schoolbook titled Der
Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom)
How does this picture
use dehumanization to
indoctrinate students?
World War I Propaganda
Pearl Harbor Propaganda
Television
Internet Propaganda
The Effect of Propaganda
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“We must remember that in time of war
what is said on the enemy’s side of the front
is always propaganda, and what is said on
our side of the front is truth and
righteousness, the cause of humanity and a
crusade for peace.”
Walter Lippman
Political author, speaker
Propaganda
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What trends did you notice with political
propaganda?
“Long Live the Great Stalin!” (1938)
Directions: On your own paper, answer the following questions.
Textual Evidence from Animal Farm is REQUIRED!
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What various sectors of
society are represented in
the top picture of Stalin?
Using the imagery, how
would you characterize
Stalin?
How would Stalin be
different from/similar to
Lenin or Trotsky?
(pictured below Stalin)
Connect Stalin’s
propaganda to Squealer’s
“propaganda” about
Napoleon in Animal Farm.