Editing Agitprop (section)

==Forms==
During the [[Russian Civil War]] agitprop took various forms:
[[File:1923 Bolshevik propaganda train.jpg|thumb|right|Bolshevik Propaganda Train]]
*Use of the press: Bolshevik strategy from the beginning was to gain access to the primary medium of dissemination of information in Russia: the press.<ref name="kenez5">Kenez, pp. 5–7</ref> The socialist newspaper ''[[Pravda]]'' resurfaced in 1917 after being shut down by the Tsarist censorship three years earlier. Prominent Bolsheviks like Kamenev, Stalin and Bukharin became editors of ''Pravda'' during and after the revolution, making it an organ for [[Bolsheviks|Bolshevik]] agitprop. With the decrease in popularity and power of Tsarist and Bourgeois press outlets, ''Pravda'' was able to become the dominant source of written information for the population in regions controlled by the [[Red Army]] .<ref name="kenez29">Kenez, pp. 29-31</ref>
[[File:KruglikovaLikbez.jpg|thumb|right|Top: Woman, learn to read and write! Bottom: Oh, Mommy! If you were literate, you could help me! A poster by [[Elizaveta Kruglikova]] advocating female literacy as part of [[Likbez]] dating from 1923]]
*Oral-agitation networks: The [[Bolshevik]] leadership understood that to build a lasting regime, they would need to win the support of the mass population of Russian peasants. To do this, Lenin organized a Communist party that attracted demobilized soldiers and others to become supporters of the Bolshevik ideology, dressed up in uniforms and sent to travel the countryside as agitators to the peasants.<ref name="kenez51">Kenez, pp. 51-53</ref> The oral-agitation networks established a presence in the isolated rural areas of Russia, expanding Communist power.
*[[Agit-train|Agitational trains]] and ships: To expand the reach of the oral-agitation networks, the Bolsheviks pioneered using modern transportation to reach deeper into Russia. The trains and ships carried agitators armed with leaflets, posters, and various other forms of agitprop. Train cars included a garage of motorcycles and cars in order for propaganda materials to reach the rural towns not located near rail lines. The agitational trains expanded the reach of agitators into Eastern Europe and allowed for the establishment of agitprop stations, consisting of libraries of propaganda material. The trains were also equipped with radios, and their own printing press, so they could report to Moscow the political climate of the given region, and receive instruction on how to custom print propaganda on the spot to better take advantage of the situation.<ref name="kenez59-60">Kenez, p. 59.</ref>
*Literacy campaign: The peasant society of Russia in 1917 was largely illiterate, making it difficult to reach them through printed agitprop. The [[People's Commissariat of Enlightenment]] was established to spearhead the war on [[illiteracy]].<ref>Kenez, p. 74</ref> Instructors were trained in 1919 and sent to the countryside to create more instructors and expand the operation into a network of literacy centers. New textbooks were created, explaining Bolshevik ideology to the newly literate members of Soviet society, and the literacy training in the army was expanded.<ref name="kenez77">Kenez, pp. 77-78</ref>