Soviet ideology, cultural policy and propaganda The ideology of Marxism-Leninism and its links to Soviet cultural policies is a subject of frequent exploration, but this article will push this common investigation a little further by considering the role of Soviet propaganda and its relationship to the Soviet Union's changing ideologies and its official cultural policies. The research will be conducted by identifying the nature of Soviet ideology as well as what it entails. Additionally, Soviet cultural policy of the Stalin era will be explored as it relates to the aforementioned ideology as well as the contrary characteristics of socialist realism. Having defined propaganda, the themes and characteristics of Soviet propaganda will then be analyzed with respect to Soviet ideology and cultural policy, and an interpretation of the role of the political tool will be made with considerable attention paid to the notions unfixed by Soviet ideology. Although Soviet propaganda practice did not entirely coincide with notions of their ideology and cultural policy, in practice propaganda was more relevant than the ideology and policy it served, because it clearly represented the ambitions and the state of affairs. - the spirit of the ruling Soviet Communist Party and can further assert that policy and ideology actually served the propaganda apparatus. This article will argue that the Soviet propaganda apparatus became more important than Soviet ideology itself.Ideology of the Soviet Union: The Power of Ideas to Shape or Determine RealityEstablished in 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a one-party state specifically centralized and governed by the Communist Party founded by Vladimir Lenin. Politically recognized as a...... middle of paper ......evolution. The ruling Communist Party would then put Marxist-Leninist ideology into motion through its increasingly narrow cultural policies, as it attempted to put Marxist ideas into practice with the aim of creating a new Soviet nation. One of these methods of achieving this nation was through propaganda. However, in the case of the Soviet Union, due to the fact that ideology and policy were inconsistent in nature and subject to change, the propaganda apparatus within the Soviet Union played a very different role historically traditional propaganda practices. This role would see ideology and cultural policy used as propaganda tools rather than the other way around. Therefore, the new relationship between Soviet ideology and propaganda supports the assertion that the practice of propaganda was in fact greater than the ideology itself in Soviet Russia..