THE MUSEUM PROJECT AS PART OF THE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN (THE EXHIBITION REVOLUTIONARY SPAIN STRUGGLING AGAINST FASCISM (1936-1939)
Revolutionary Spain St niggling against Fascism was one of the most important exhibitions at the Museum of the History of Religion at 1930s. It was opened nearly four months after the propaganda campaign supporting the Republic had started. Mass media and a large solidarity movement being totally controlled by the party bodies produced some special image of the Spanish Civil War and its actors. The museum project was a part of the propaganda campaign The main idea of the exhibition was to depict the struggle between “popular”, “revolutionary” and “anti-popular”, “fascist” (the cleigy played a big role here) forces. The basic points were the following: 1) modem Spanish fascism is “a heir of the medieval feudalism monarchy, clerical fa naticism and barbarity”, the victory of fascism means the return to “the fires of Inquisition”; 2) contemporary revolutionary movement in Spain is a part of a deep-seated and unbroken tradition which makes victory of the Republicans inevitable.