According to historian Peter Kenez, "the Russian socialists have contributed nothing to the theoretical discussion of the techniques of mass persuasion. ... The Bolsheviks never looked for and did not find devilishly clever methods to influence people's minds, to brainwash them."

Kenez says this lack of interest "followed from their notion of propaganda. They thought of propaganda as part of education."[3] In a study published in 1958, business administration professor Raymond Bauer concluded: "Ironically, psychology and the other social sciences have been employed least in the Soviet Union for precisely those purposes for which Americans popularly think psychology would be used in a totalitarian state—political propaganda and the control of human behavior."

Stole that from somebody else's post, don't know what the original stuff is that's being referenced but with the names you could probably find it.