AGITATION AND PROPAGANDA DURING THE CIVIL WAR IN SIBERIA
The article is devoted to the content of leaflets and posters of the white and red period of the Civil war and “military communism” in Siberia. The structure of construction of propaganda materials, the main methods of persuasion, the addressees of the appeal are analyzed. The author shows the change in the content of leaflets and methods of agitation and propaganda at different stages of the Civil war and the period of “military communism”. There is a certain similarity in the structure of propaganda materials in the opposing camps. At the same time, it is emphasized that the leaflets, formally identical in content, found different forms of embodiment, depending on which camp they were - in “white” or in “red”. The article notes that political posters of the Civil war period in Siberia used types of propaganda materials of the Russian Empire - people’s splint and icon. The author comes to the conclusion that propaganda and propaganda materials appealed to the mythological layer of mass consciousness, depicting real historical characters in the form of a set of recognizable mythologies and symbols.