For further study the following resources are recommended.

James von Geldern and Richard Stites (eds.) Mass Culture in Soviet Russia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).

David Kind, The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia (New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 1997).

Peter Kenez, The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).

Thomas F. Remington, The Authority of Truth: Ideology and Communication in the Soviet Union (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1988).

Angus Roxburgh, Pravda: Inside the Soviet News Machine (New York: 1987).

Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).