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As soon as the Bolsheviks took power in October 1917, they liberalized laws on divorce and abortion, decriminalized homosexuality, and proclaimed a new higher status for women. Inessa Armand (1874-1920), Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939) and Aleksandra Artyukhina (1889–1969) were prominent Bolsheviks.
After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, political unrest grew and the past revolutionary spirit seen in Russian art turned into propagandist work. By the beginning of the 1930s, poster production was strictly reserved for commissioned artists as well as the images, text, and symbols used.
The poster was drawn as hanging on a wall in a 1995 poster created by Gabor Baksay. [15] In September 2021, a modified version of this painting was used in Novosibirsk to promote vaccination against the COVID-19. [16] Lissitzky's Revenge is a game based on Lissitzky's propaganda posters from 1919. It was developed in 2015 and uses paper-cuts as ...
Bolshevik Propaganda Train Use of the press: Bolshevik strategy from the beginning was to gain access to the primary medium of dissemination of information in Russia: the press. [ 13 ] The socialist newspaper Pravda resurfaced in 1917 after being shut down by the Tsarist censorship three years earlier.
April 1917 Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd's Finland railway station packed with supporters. July 1917 The demonstrations in Nevsky Square are fired upon by the army. The government orders the working class to be cut off from the city center, and in a dramatic sequence the bridges are raised with the bodies of the Bolsheviks still on them ...
After 1920, the imagery of women in propaganda posters began to shift to that of the woman worker, a new Soviet woman. Though some allegorical representations of women subsisted in propaganda posters and art through the early 1920s, the new depictions of women found in Likbez-era posters were of women in plain dress, "industrious women workers ...
The spectacle was staged outside the former Tsarist Winter Palace where the Provisional Government was meeting at the time of the Bolshevik revolution. Its performers included 125 ballet dancers, 100 circus people, 1,750 supernumeraries and students, 200 women, 260 secondary actors, and 150 assistants. There were also tanks and armoured cars ...
Rabotnitsa (Russian: Работница; English: The Woman Worker) is a women's journal, published in the Soviet Union and Russia and one of the oldest Russian magazines for women and families. Founded in 1914, and first published on Women's Day , it is the first socialist women's journal, [ 1 ] and the most politically left of the women's ...