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An agit-train (Russian: агитпоезд) was a locomotive engine with special auxiliary cars outfitted for propaganda purposes by the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia during the time of the Russian Civil War, War Communism, and the New Economic Policy. Brightly painted and carrying on board a printing press, government complaint office, printed political leaflets and pamphlets, library books, and a mobile movie theater, agit-trains traveled the rails of Russia , Siberia, and the Ukraine in an attempt to inculcate the values and program of the new revolutionary government to a scattered and isolated peasantry. Launched in August 1918, agit-trains — and their close counterparts, the urban agit-streetcar (Russian: агиттрамвай) and the aquatic agit-boat (Russian: агитпарaход) — continued in limited use throughout the 1920s. The agit-train concept was revived during the years of World War II as a mechanism for the direct spread of information during a time when ordinary means of communication and government control structures between the center and the periphery had faltered.

agit-train government control агитпоезд

References

  1. Peter Kenez, The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917–1929. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1985; pg. 58.
  2. Kenez, The Birth of the Propaganda State, pp. 58-59.
  3. Kenez, The Birth of the Propaganda State, pg. 59.
  4. Jonathan Smele, The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916–1926: Ten Years that Shook the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015; pg. 248.
  5. Szymon Boyko, "Agit-Prop Art: The Streets Were Their Theatre," in Stepahanie Barron and Maurice Tuchman (eds.), The Avant Garde in Russia, 1910–1930: New Perspectives. Cambridge, MA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/MIT Press, 1980; pg. 76.
  6. V. Karpinskii (ed.), Agitparpoezda VTsIK: Ikh istoriia, apparat, metody i formy raboty (Agit-trains of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee: Their history, staff, methods, and forms of work). Moscow: 1920, pg. 6. Cited in Richard Taylor, "The Birth of Soviet Cinema," in Abbott Gleason, Peter Kenez, and Richard Stites (eds.), Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985; pg. 195.
  7. Taylor, "The Birth of Soviet Cinema," pg. 195.
  8. Kenez, The Birth of the Propaganda State, pg. 61.
  9. Kenez, The Birth of the Propaganda State, pg. 62.
  10. Adelheid Heftberger, "Soviet Agit-Trains from the Vertov Collection of the Austrian Film Museum," www.incite-online.net/ http://www.incite-online.net/heftberger4.html
  11. L.V. Maksakova, Agitpoezd "Oktiabr'skaia Revoliutsiia" (1919-20 gg.) [The "October Revolution" Agit-Train (1919-20)]. Moscow: 1956; pg. 11. Cited in Taylor, "The Birth of Soviet Cinema," pg. 196. The source claims a total audience of more than 620,000, which averages out to about 1,425 per showing — a highly dubious count. Peter Kenez notes that "very likely the figures were inflated, for it was impossible to check." (Birth of the Propaganda State, pg. 62).
  12. Taylor, "The Birth of Soviet Cinema," pg. 196.
  13. G.M. Gak, Samoe vazhnoe iz vsekh isskustv: Lenin o kino (The Most Important of All Arts: Lenin on Film). Moscow: 1973; pg. 52. Cited in Taylor, "The Birth of Soviet Cinema," pg. 196.
  14. N.K. Krupskaia, Vospominaniia o Lenine (Reminiscences of Lenin). Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1957; pg. 424. Quoted in Taylor, "The Birth of Soviet Cinema," pg. 196.
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