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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 ...
In 1917–1920, the Bolsheviks published more than 40 newspapers and magazines in Azerbaijan. The leading organ of the Bolshevik press was the newspaper "Gummet" (1917-1918, edited by publicists Mammad Said Ordubadi and Dadash Bunyadzadeh). The most active representative of the Bolshevik press was Alikhan Garayev.
It officially started in early September 1918 and it lasted until 1922, [4] [5] though violence committed by Bolshevik soldiers, sailors, and Red Guards had been ongoing since late 1917. [ 6 ]
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.
After the October Revolution of 1917, an agitprop train toured the country, with artists and actors performing simple plays and broadcasting propaganda. [8] It had a printing press on board the train to allow posters to be reproduced and thrown out of the windows as it passed through villages. [ 9 ]
Bolshevik propaganda poster from the Russian Civil War with an allusion of Saint George and the Dragon with Red Army leader Leon Trotsky as being a Saint George figure who was slaying the dragon which represented counter-revolution. The symbol of Saint George slaying the dragon was and still is a Russian national symbol.
Tikhon refused to take sides in the civil war, [8] although the official Bolshevik propaganda presented him, as well as the Church, as supporting the whites. The Bolsheviks used the alleged support of the Russian Orthodox Church for the Whites as their justification for killing clergy in massive numbers.
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.