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From the Civil War to Gagarin’s space flight, the Bolsheviks perfectly used bright and clear posters and slogans as their agitation tool. And these images are well known to anyone who grew up in...
Propaganda during Soviet times came in poster form. Some messages stirred patriotism in the fight against Adolf Hitler’s invading forces, while others slammed illiteracy and laziness.
Propaganda in the Soviet Union was the practice of state-directed communication aimed at promoting class conflict, proletarian internationalism, the goals of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the party itself.
Soviet propaganda was more than just a political instrument – this unique artform left behind a Soviet cultural legacy. 1. Dmitry Moor (1883-1946) Have You Volunteered? Public domain. Dmitry...
Together they form a visual history of official efforts to influence the USSR’s people throughout the country’s 70-year lifespan — from militant appeals against capitalism to the iconic “Motherland calls!” of World War II to little known gems supporting Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika efforts.
Posters were a common method of distributing propaganda in the Soviet Union from the country's inception. Artistic styles and approaches to subject matter shifted and evolved alongside political and social changes within the country.
The exhibition explores the remarkably wide-ranging body of propaganda posters created as an artistic consequence of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
These posters were created right on the cusp of the imposition of Socialist Realism as the official artistic style of the Soviet Union in 1932 and reveal a moment of aesthetic diversity in Russian and Soviet visual art.
Focusing on images of labor, industrialization and technology, the exhibition demonstrates how the ideological imperative of imagining a new collective society existed in a contradictory relationship with artists' efforts to redefine their role in post-revolutionary Russia.
Tracing the biography of Klutsis’s posters, such as “Under the Banner of Lenin,” reveals the emergence of a Soviet propaganda apparatus that involved a regime-controlled publishing house, a government-sponsored art school, and, overall, a government-organized propaganda agenda.