Description
| Product ID: | 9781990735332 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | My Life in Propaganda |
| Subtitle: | A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes |
| Authors: | Author: Magda Stroinska |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Historical and comparative linguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, European history, History, Political control and freedoms, European history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Political control & freedoms, Eastern Europe, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), 20th century |
| Description: | My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska''s personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe. The book looks at post-communist societies through the lens of societal trauma and explains how to understand the sudden fall into the populist trap. This demonstrates that democracy can never be taken for granted. My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska''s personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe. She looks at the influence of her family history that contradicted what she was taught at school, the cognitive and emotional effects of compulsory school readings, socialist realist art and film, Radio Free Europe and Voice of America and their role in shaping her generation''s collective view of the world. The book looks at post-communist societies through the lens of societal trauma and explains how to understand the sudden fall into the populist trap. This demonstrates that democracy can never be taken for granted. |
| Imprint Name: | Durvile Publications Ltd. |
| Publisher Name: | Durvile Publications Ltd. |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-31 |