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) is a 1919 lithographic Bolshevik propaganda poster by El Lissitzky. In the poster, the intrusive red wedge symbolizes the Bolsheviks, who are penetrating and defeating their opponents, the White movement, during the Russian Civil War. The image gained popularity in the West upon Lissitzky's migration to Germany in 1921.
During the Russian Civil War agitprop took various forms: . 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]
Rosta posters were a highly popularized form of communication used by the Russian government during a short time period between 1919 - 1921. The posters were used to communicate mass messages and propaganda during the Russian Civil War. Once the war came to an end, the Russian government turned to new forms of communication. [1]
[7]: 11 The earliest propaganda posters in Soviet Russia appeared in August 1918 [7]: 11 and focused on the Russian Civil War, with this remaining the primary subject until 1921. [4] Between 1919 and 1921, the Russian Telegraph Agency produced ROSTA windows, posters which featured simplified cartoons and short pieces of text or mottoes. [8]
Russian World War 1 propaganda posters generally showed the enemies as demonic, one example showing Kaiser Wilhelm as a devil figure. [13] They would all depict the war as ‘patriotic’, with one poster saying that the war was Russia’s second ‘patriotic war’, the first being against Napoleon.
Anti-Bolshevik propaganda was created in opposition to the events on the Russian political scene. The Bolsheviks were a radical and revolutionary wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which came to power during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Volunteer Army recruitment poster during the Russian Civil War. The Volunteer Army ( Russian : Добровольческая армия , romanized : Dobrovolcheskaya armiya ) ( pre-1918 Russian : Добровольческая армія ), abbreviated to Добрармия , Dobrarmiya (pre-1918 Russian: Добрармія ) [ 1 ] was a ...
The White movement, [c] also known as the Whites, [d] was one of the main factions of the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. It was led mainly by the right-leaning and conservative officers of the Russian Empire, while the Bolsheviks who led the October Revolution in Russia, also known as the Reds, and their supporters, were regarded as the main enemies of the Whites.