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Propaganda Studies
The top priority was to maintain the agenda.
Long-debunked conspiracies don’t disappear—they evolve and thrive in the age of algorithms.
Even when leaders know disruption is a smart long-term decision, the pain of transition can produce a titanic shambles. Just ask Kodak.
In this excerpt from "Tales of Militant Chemistry," Alice Lovejoy exposes how the need for uranium during WWII led the Allied governments to turn a blind eye to colonial exploitation.
Modern autocracies operate "not like a bloc but rather like an agglomeration of companies," says journalist and historian Anne Applebaum.
A single knife is sometimes worth more than a thousand armies.
In a time when we dislike and distrust our politicians, why can't we get more popular leaders like Kim Jong Un and Bashar al-Assad?
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
“Who is the aggressor?” That depends on which of these maps you believe.
Piano Sonata No. 23 offers a window into the way culture became an instrument of Soviet state policy.
His plan to replace it with homegrown rice did not go well.
Instead of giving the 239 suffering families and the public a true story, Netflix exploited a horrifying tragedy to push conspiracy theories.
In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn't catch on.
It doesn't matter how ridiculous a lie is. As long as it is repeated often enough, some people will believe it.
Is there victory in defeat?
While there is more to North Korean cinema than meets the eye, the country’s film industry ultimately amounts to little more than a mouthpiece for the ruling Kim dynasty.
War is peace.
For a long time, important events could only be visualized retroactively through paintings. Photography allowed us to capture history as — or sometimes even before — it happened.
Distinguishing fact from fiction can be tough, especially when it comes to people as controversial as Stalin.
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Should we worry about fascist politics? Philosopher Jason Stanley plays devil’s advocate.
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Propaganda urges you to mobilize towards something while concealing from you things that you reasonably should think and consider.