The Soviet Union is totalitarian ideological state.
The principal characteristics of totalitarian ideology are as follows; (1) it embraces all phases of human though, feeling, and action (2) it allows no rivel set beliefs or values (3) it oversimplif...
The Soviet Union is totalitarian ideological state.
The principal characteristics of totalitarian ideology are as follows; (1) it embraces all phases of human though, feeling, and action (2) it allows no rivel set beliefs or values (3) it oversimplifies human problems and their solution by reducing them to accord with a single, monolithic principle-that of "class" in the case of Communism. Totalitarian ideology goes well beyond politics and economics and seeks to achieve an authority over all of man's life and rhought. Thus the doctrine of Maxism-Leninism, as put forth by the current "party line". extends into all areas of human activity and understanding. Communist permits only one dominant party. That is Communist party. One of the chief instruments of the one-party system is propaganda. Whether the Soviet Citizen opens a newspaper, listens to the radio, or watches television, he sees and hears only what the Communist party wants him to hear.
In the Soviet union, the mass media have continued to be carefully controlled by the state, in order to ensure that publicity is not used to mobilize a public Constituency against the fundamentals of regime policy. The government office has the right to exercise Consorship before and after publication and forbid the publication or dissemination of writings, photographs, radio scrps, and so forth, and so, mass media is not only a collective propagandist and collective agitator, but also a collective organizer. Consequently we can not find out public opinion but only mass persuasion in the Soviet Union.