The letter entails the state intervening with letters, a prime example of censorship as a means of consolidating power by the Soviet state.
Meeting of the POLITBURO
The source reveals how collectivization was exercised through the use of coercion.
Letter to the Central Comittee
This letter identified the sort of opposition to the state. And therefore the degree of success of their method in consolidating power.
Map of Gulag camps
The map shows us how significant labour camp was to Stalin's method of consolidation.
Propaganda poster
This source reveals who the state consider to be their opposition and enemies, and also how propaganda was used to consolidate power.
Women working at the gulag
An example of how concentration camps were used.
Lenin letter about the kulaks
This letter reveals how Lenin used force to liquidate the kulaks (forceful requisition, execution, denunciation, etc.), one of their main focuses in consolidating Soviet power.
Propaganda poster
This is an example of Soviet propaganda, which boosted the successes of the state's policies (in this example, of increasing literacy). This source shows us what content is to be expected in Soviet propaganda and how it is used.
About the press
This source reveals how the Soviet used the press to maintain revolutionary incentives, and how they justify censorship as a necessary means for the survival of the USSR. This is an example of propaganda/press as a means of consolidating power.
Propaganda poster
The poster reveals how the state used Stalin cult of personality to consolidate its power. In this source, Stalin is compared to Lenin and is portrayed as loved by his people.
