Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Posters from the Russian Civil War (1918 - 1922)


"Women, Go into the Cooperatives" (1918)

"Take Care of Books" (1920)

"Proletariat, you didn't fear heavy weapons -- don't fear heavy labor. The workers' country is built by labor"

"Poland - the last dog of the Entente" (by Viktor Nikolaevich Deni)

"Red Army Soldiers - Remember - you are watching your own"

"Glory to victorious Red Army soldier!" (by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor)

"The Cooperatives Open for Everybody" (1918)


"Red Guard Doesn't Want Blood, but He Is Ready" (1921)


"Literacy - the Path to Communism" (1920)


"The Devil Doll" (by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor) (1918)


"Constituent assembly" [4 men in shoe boat: Bourgeois, General, France and S. P. Chernov] (by Viktor Nikolaevich Deni) (1921)


"Peace and Freedom in Sovdepiia" [caricature of Trotsky]

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all posters found at the New York Public Library Digital Collection

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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PS, viva stalin.

 
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