How did Lenin use media and propaganda to control people?

Opera and ballet weren't sponsored or supported and galleries were looted and the art sold off

Probolshevik plays, arts and choirs were supported instead.

Practically no operas, ballets or symphonies were written but also very few light hearted apolitical works either

There were lots of

• Posters
• Statues e.g. Marx and Engels in october 1918
• Busts of Lenin
• Speeches
• Zinoviev wrote lenin's biography in 1918
• Procession especially on May Day to celebrate the october revolution - building on existing religious culture
• Concerts

Cinema
"Of all the arts, for us cinema is the most important" - Lenin

• Film of Lenin at the Kremlin
• Few cinemas were in operation and few peasants knew what a cinema was
• Agin-Trains took films around the country
• People preferred Charlie Chaplin to Soviet propaganda