Browsing by Subject "propaganda"

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    Khrushchev’s Corn Campaign: In Dream and Reality
    (2023-04) Nustad, Kayla
    This paper is an analysis of the agricultural campaign run by Premier Nikita Khrushchev during his term leading the Soviet Union from 1953-1964. Khrushchev became enamored with the wild success of corn in the United States and was determined to prove the Soviet Union and its communist methods could reach the same levels of prosperity and even surpass those of the U.S. Though, it quickly became apparent that there were many issues within the Soviet system that impeded the crop’s ability to grow and prosper as it did in America. While the campaign did not bring the success it promised to the Soviet citizens, it depicts an interesting aspect of the competition between world powers during the Cold War that does not involve the arms race: agricultural prosperity.
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    States vs. Social Movements: Protests and State Repression in Asia
    (Cogitatio, 2022) Lukito, Josephine; Cui, Zhe; Hu, An; Lee, Taeyoung; Ozawa, João V.S.
    This study considers how governments use state‐sponsored propaganda and state violence in tandem to repress social movements and, in so doing, exacerbate polarization. We specifically focus on cases in young and non‐democracies in East and Southeast Asia: China and Hong Kong, the Free Papua Movement in Indonesia, and Myanmar’s more recent coup. Using a time series analysis, our analysis reveals a temporal relationship between state propaganda and violence; however, we do not find much evidence that these state actions Granger‐cause social movement activities. The exception to this is in Myanmar, where we find that repressive state actions decrease activity in Facebook groups criticizing the Tatmadaw, which in turn increases offline protest activities.