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Revolutionary Posters of the Soviet Union 3
Soldier, Liberate Your Belorussia!
Viktor Koretsky, 1943
It can be imagined how powerful this poster might have been for Russian soldiers, a large part of whose country had already been invaded, occupied, and ruined by Nazi soldiers. Imagery as simple and moving as this could draw even peaceful men to war.
All Hope Lies With You, Red Soldier
Viktor Ivanov and Olga Burova, 1943
As with numbers 5 and 6, you need to look no further if you want to understand why many people go to fight in wars. For the ordinary soldier, the war was not so much about ideological allegiance as it was about protecting the ones they loved. The frightening images here weren’t designed to show what could hypothetically happen, if the war was lost; they showed what had already happened
Red Army Warriors, Save Us!
Viktor Koretsky, 1943
The imagery in the WWII posters is generally far simpler than those of the propaganda campaigns of the 20s and 30s. The propaganda posters were indoctrination campaigns, targeted at certain groups of people, aiming to convince them of certain things that they might not otherwise believe.
But images like this one did not need to be complicated in order to have the desired effect. Koretsky, the artist who created this poster, received letters from soldiers on the front: they “kept his poster folded in the left-hand top pocket of their uniform, next to their heart, just as icons had been kept by their fathers before them.”
Thunderbolt
The Kukriniksy, Wartime
Many of these hand-painted posters were pasted over windows for propaganda purposes. Despite initial and unexpected friendship with the Axis powers during the war, Hitler’s surprise invasion of Russia had resulted in a strong alliance with the U.S. and Britain.
KPSS – Glory!
Boris Berezovsky, 1962
KPSS stands for “Kommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza” – the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This poster celebrates a series of feats, which intensified the space race and redefined the whole Cold War. On the left is Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. To his right is Gherman Titov, the first person to spend a whole day in space. They are pictured alongside two other cosmonauts who made it to space. The achievements of these men both shocked and excited people in the U.S., and played a major role in Kennedy’s decision to prioritize sending a man to the moon.
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Soviet Propaganda Art- Part 2
Examples of Stalinist Posters & Political Art (1930-1953)
S. M. Luppov, Sports Games at a Stadium (1927)
Youth Must Fly (1934)
V. N. Yakovlev, Construction Workers Writing a Letter to Stalin (1937)
A. A. Deineka, Defending Sebastopol (1942)
Kukryniksy, The Fascists Leaving Novgorod (1944)
I. A. Laktionov, Letter from the Front (1948)
Soviet Propaganda Art- Part 1
Examples of Stalinist Posters & Political Art (1930-1953)
N. Kh. Rurkovsky. Stalin at Kirov’s Bier. 1934
F. P. Reshetnikov. Stalin’s Great Oath (at the All-Union Congress of Soviets, 1/24/1924). 1949.
V.V. Kuptsov, ANT-20 (Maxim Gorky). 1934
Soviet Pavilion at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris (Mukhina’s Worker & Peasant Woman st the Top)
I.I. Brodsky, Stalin (1937)
G.M. Shegal’, Leader, Teacher, Friend(1937)
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Soviet Union Propaganda Posters- Post WW2
Soviet Propaganda Posters Post WW2
Five-Year plan in four years – (we) will complete!
Comrades loggers! Let’s keep promise given to Comrade Stalin!
Develop virgin lands!
Glory to Soviet Country! 1917 1953
(You) will be a master!
If to work good, the bread will grow
New five-year plan – the five year plan of the Great construction
Young builders of Communism!
Let’s raise the generation utterly devoted to the cause of communism!
(Will) rebuild!
Glory to the Russian people – the bogatyr people, the creator people!
Nikita Sergeyevich Kruschev
Long live to PEACE!
via Soviet poster.
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Soviet Union propaganda posters: Soviet collectivization and industrialization
Soviet collectivization and industrialization
Brave labor of the fishermen is in country’s respect. Have a nice catch, have a nice journey!
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Save work minute!
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Here we will live, work and study
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The sun of the new harvest
Every day – udarny (superproductive).
In the unity of the production and science – the power and future of the country!
Give the Mainline of the century!
Five year plan – earlier than scheduled!
Do not lose!
(We) Will pave the way to the future!
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Glory to the mighty aviation of the country of the Socialism! 1939
January 1st, 1939. Happy New Year!
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To work, to build and not to whine!
Long live Stalin’s constitution!
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Soviet Union propaganda posters-Lenin and Marx
Lenin, Marx
Lithuanian Poster of Lenin
The teaching of Marx is all-powerful because it is true!
Disarmament is the ideal of socialism. Ulyanov Lenin
The party is the mind, honor and conscience of our epoch. V.I. Lenin.
Soviet power is a million times more democratic than the most democratic bourgeois republic.
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Lenin – a thinker
Peace is our ideal
To the bright future of communist society, universal prosperity and enduring peace. |
Our task is to protect firmness, steadfastness, purity of our party. V.I. Lenin
V.I. Lenin 1870 – 1924
Lenin, October, Peace. 1917 – 1987.
Lenin is still more alive than all those living KPSS
Long live Marxism-Leninism!
Lenin lived, Lenin is alive, Lenin will live!
Time is working for peace. For communism.
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Soviet Union propaganda posters-Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War
Russian Revolution of 1917 & the Russian Civil War
Red Army is a reliable guard of the Soviet country.
The stake of the interventionists is overbid!
10 years (anniversary) of the october (revolution)
Long live the 5th anniversary of the Great October Proletarian Revolution!
Long live KOMSOMOL
HELP
Think about those who are starving
The victory of the Revolution is in cooperation of workers and peasants.
Workers
(I) Believe (we) will celebrate the hundredth anniversary
Citizens, save the historical monuments
Long live the genius of the world-wide marvels – mighty creative labor.
1st of May. All-Russian subbotnik.
By a powerful strike of labor, we will destroy the shackles of devastation.
Bread spider
(That) What Bolshevism brings to nation
Soviet Union propaganda posters-The Great Purge and Stalin
Under the leadership of the great Stalin – forward to Communism!
Glory to Stalin – to the great architect of communism!
Stalin and Klement Voroshilov
“Long live the workers’ and peasants’ Red Army – the true guard of the Soviet borders!” Gustav
Klutsis, 1935
Stalin in the Kremlin cares about each one of us!
Life’s Getting Better. Stalin 1934.
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The captain of the country of Soviets, leads us from victory to victory! 1933
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Stalin
GPU. counter-revolutionary saboteur.
Do not speak out!
Soviet Propaganda Posters – Tass Collection 1939-1945
During World War II, the Soviet Union’s news agency, TASS, enlisted artists and writers to bolster support for the nation’s war effort. Working from Moscow, this studio produced hundreds of storefront window posters, one for nearly every day of the war.’
