yr13_ia_2007_burridge_a

= = =Plan of the Investigation (100-150 Words)=

This investigation is going to [**will**] look at how the visual image was used as a tool of propaganda in Stalin’s USSR. I will look into three ways that Stalin used visual images as tools: doctored photographs, posters and film. Doctored photographs were everywhere during Stalin’s rule, many were doctored to erase certain people from the pictures; I aim to find out why they disappeared. Posters were used mainly to generate support for Stalin’s industrialization and collectivization programs, but what were these posters trying to say and just how accurate were they to Stalin’s true aims? Films during the time of Stalin’s rule were often used to inspire patriotism, but how accurate were the messages shown in these films? The methods I will use to assess these questions will be the use of documents published by historians. I will use the book ‘The Commissar Vanishes’ to find out more about the doctored photographs. I will also use websites available to me, and other books. (**be specific**)