A Study On The Propaganda War Of The U.S. To The Soviet Union(1953-1961)

Ideological and political education,falling within the ambit of Social ideology,is indispensable in the social life of human beings.For it cannot be ignored from countries and nations to groups and individuals.As far as the national level,through media publicity and cultural penetration of specific national institutions,carrying out well organized and planned,targeted and the audience-oriented promotional activities can have an impact on one or more of the people.Thus,propaganda war of a nation plays a significant role in spreading its ideology,penetrating its values,interfering and disrupting other country's ideology,assimilating alien culture,and safeguarding its national interests.At the beginning of the Cold War,the U.S.launched several long-time and well-rounded propaganda war,enhancing propaganda to the level of national security.The collapse of the Soviet ideology of the people is the strong evidence of its cold war mentality.In the American traditional values "propaganda" is false,deceptive and conflicting with "democracy".However,during the Cold War,the United States of America implemented a multi-channel,multi-faceted and time-consuming propaganda war,which achieved the purpose of ideological collapse of the Soviet people and the penetration of Western values.The United States achieved a complete victory eventually with the East European Upheaval and Soviet Disorganization.By selecting the United States Information Agency as a particular object,the background,policies,measures and nature of the propaganda war of the US on the Soviet Union can be anatomized,which is of great importance for us to comprehend the penetration of America in politics,diplomacy and ideology fields in the word-wide to maintain the security of China's information,acquaint and imitate American foreign propaganda policy and strategies to strengthen the intensity and effectiveness of China's outreach efforts.In this paper,the propaganda war on the Soviet Union that America news agency carried out from 1953 to 1961 is taken as an example.The research is in view of the historical background of the campaign,the propaganda policies,the nature of the campaign,the specific measures and the enlightenment to our country.First of all,the thesis bases on clarifying the American foreign propaganda policy,from the aspects of ideology and the core category of the propaganda war between America and theSoviet Union and the basic information of American news agency,introduces the publicity strategy of United States and the Soviet Union in the cold war period,at the same time demonstrates the special status the propaganda war had during the cold war,and focus on the analysis of the importance of the the propaganda war.Secondly,this thesis systematically combes the American foreign promotion policy and conducts a case study of propaganda war around the two main lines: media propaganda war and cultural propaganda war.The thesis restores the real historical appearance of the United States Information Agency as the main foreign propaganda war from 1953 to 1961 carried out by the United States against the Soviet Union,shows the means,methods,media with abundant historical data.In addition,it has carried on the preliminary introduction and analysis on the "America" magazine and “Moscow Expo” propaganda effect,and provides the historical basis for revealing the essence of full America Soviet propaganda.Furthermore,based on the system analysis and presentation for Media propaganda war and cultural propaganda war,the thesis summarizes the nature of the United States propaganda war against the Soviet Union and demonstrates the anti-communist ideology is the dominant ideology.The United States propaganda war against the Soviet Union's strategic goal is to form a “pro-American”,“anti-Soviet” propaganda environment,thus reveals ultimate aim is to win without fighting.Finally,paper comprehensive analyses the history background,promotion policies,measures and essence of American news agency as the main body of the United States to Soviet Union propaganda war,and summarizes the contemporary inspiration the United States propaganda war against the Soviet Union on China's new era of foreign propaganda,and puts forward corresponding countermeasures in connection with the following aspects.It notes to be alert to western ideology penetration and strengthen citizens' national identity construction;Under the new situation to improve propaganda work,to play good foreign propaganda work;To build a good image in our country,strengthen the international voice.The thesis raises not only to withstood the proposed US-led Western forces,propaganda,but also to take the initiative to strengthen the response to the idea of China's foreign propaganda work.