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Her work has also been featured in Smithsonian and she’s designed several book covers in her career as a graphic artist. What sets the Polish poster apart from what we're used to [seeing] in the West is a general disregard for the demands of the big studios. It was the job of Comintern, also known as the Third Communist International, to stir up global revolution in the aftermath of WWI and to advocate the federation of all communist parties, an aspiration vividly illustrated in the third poster and in English, Spanish, Italian, French, and German: “Welcome Third Communist International’ says the Red Flag. Ioganson adopted socialist realism as the main style of Soviet art and is considered to be its founder.

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Instead of purveyors of brute force, they were depicted as devious manipulators who used ideological machinations to pervert democracy and cripple capitalism. During the Cultural Revolution traditional artists were condemned as counter-revolutionaries and their work destroyed. Political posters had a pedagogic function in communicating a world view, sometimes with a practical purpose in mind. These general tendencies hold true in every case, but nowhere, perhaps, is this gross exaggeration and fear mongering more evident than in times of war.The General Political Poster series features works from the earliest days of Soviet power and is especially strong for the late 1920s, a period that coincides with the "cultural revolution" of I. Use them in your classroom to present a vivid lesson about where we have come from as a society, or put them in your home office to be inspired as you work on your next political treatise. Moor worked for Litizdat, the publishing house founded by the Political Directorate of the Revolutionary Military Council. It can be divided into three main series, each representing distinct eras in the history of Communist political advertising. They mixed popular styles like Japanism, Jugendstil, Secessionist, and Cubism with traditional symbolism and Polish folklore.

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Web Urbanist points us toward one particularly chilling and dishonest piece of propaganda distributed by the government. Although such background stories imply the dark side of propaganda art, it was, in fact, often far from grim. The posters both connect us to the past and speak to us in the present; the designs are as striking as they ever were and just as relevant. In 1966 Mao Zedong, the Communist leader of China, started a political campaign that became known as the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

The poster depicts a soldier who has fought in the Great Patriotic War, a term used for world war two.

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Here a woman holds Mao's Little Red Book, which was compulsory reading | Yan Yongsheng, Unite for Greater Victory! In anticipation of next Tuesday's midterm elections, here is a photo gallery of voting-related images from Duke Digital Collections. Together they show how effectively posters were used as tools of mobilization, instruction, censure, debate, and manipulation of public thought and opinion. Again, the continued presence of European colonial powers in postwar Africa played into Soviet propagandist hands.

In the post-WWI era German and Norwegian posters above, Godzilla-sized Communists lay waste to entire cities. The government's first socialist and future head, Alexander Kerensky, sits in the bottom left corner. During the Cold War, Polish artists approached movie posters differently from the rest of the world. And while we’ve all seen our share of wartime propaganda, we may be less familiar with the decades-long propaganda war the U.

The Graphic Persuasiveness of 20th-Century Communist Posters

All of these postures bear the traces of their historical moment, reflecting, sometimes vibrantly, sometimes starkly, a drive to seize meaning as an essential aspect of political culture.

Their posters were often created by famous poets and artists such as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Alexei Radakov. It is named after an African-American actor who, frustrated by the racism of the US entertainment industry, emigrated to Moscow in 1932. Showing a scene literally right out of a schlocky Paramount horror film, featuring actress Janet Logan, the text tells us, “In case the Communists should conquer, our women would be helpless beneath the boots of the Asiatic Russians.

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