CREECA Lecture Series

Andrey Ivanov, UW-Platteville. For much of the modern history, nations used media-based propaganda as an indispensable instrument in carrying out mass mobilization for the larger war effort. Yet for most of the eighteenth and even the nineteenth centuries, what we properly call “the media” was out of reach for the vast majority of residents of the Russian Empire. The state in early imperial Russia relied on the Orthodox Church to serve as a major purveyor of wartime propaganda.