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The Russian Revolution Centenary: 1917-2017 Politics, Propaganda and People's Art

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1. Долой капитал, да здравствует диктатура пролетариата! = Down with the capital, long live the dictatorship of the proletariat!

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Artist: Dmitrii I. Mel'nikov. Place of Publication: Moscow Year of Publication: 1920
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http://search.rsl.ru/ru/record/01005521754
Date:
1920

2. Ty! Zapisalsia dobrovol'tsem? = Have you registered as a volunteer?

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This emblematic poster of the early Soviet era invokes the youth to join the Red Army!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Moor
Date:
1920

3. Женщины, идите в кооперацию = Ladies, join the cooperatives!

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Artist: Ignatii I. Nivinskii.
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http://sovetskieplakaty.ru/plakat-zhenshhiny-idite-v-kooperaciyu/
Date:
1918

4. Listok Pravdy

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On 19th July 1917, the issue of Pravda was not published. Instead, a substitute that was entitled- "Listok Pravdy (A leaf of truth)" was published.
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https://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/21159574
Date:
1917

5. Уходящая шляхта в бессильной злобе динамитом Антанты взрывает города, истребляет население. Проклятье и смерть наемным убийцам!

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This poster is about the Polish and German Intervention in Russia and Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. Artist: Dmitrii Moor. Publisher: Лит.-изд. Отд. Полит. Упр. РВСР Technique: Lithography.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War
Date:
1920

6. The landing page of Izvestiia that depicts the progress of Russian Revolution.

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Izvestiia, No. 241, December 01, 1917
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https://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/24589971
Date:
1917

7. "ЗАЕМ СВОБОДЫ". = "LOAN OF FREEDOM."

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Artist: Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev. Method: Chromolithography.
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http://www.spbmuseum.ru/funds/368/49262/
Date:
1917

8. Неграмотный — тот же слепой. = The illiterate is the same blind man.

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Artist: Aleksei Radakov. On December 26, 1919, under the most difficult conditions of the Civil War, intervention, devastation and famine, the Council of People's Commissars issued a 9-point decree signed by Lenin on the elimination of illiteracy in the RSFSR. The decree ruled that "the entire population of the Republic aged 8-50 years, who can not read and write, must learn to read and write in native or Russian language at will." The state received the right "to attract to the education of illiterates by way of labor service all the literate population of the country, not called up for troops, with payment of their labor according to the norms of educators". The working day was reduced by 2 hours for those who learned to read and write with the same wages for the whole period of study.
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https://regnum.ru/news/society/2222004.html
Date:
1918

9. 1-oe Maia 1920 goda= The May 1st of 1920.

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Artist: Nikolai Kochergin.
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http://bit.ly/2uj53CK
Date:
1920

10. Пролетарии всех стран соединяйтесь. Да здравствует международная армия труда! Только командиры из народа поведут красную армию к победе!

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The translation of the title of this poster is as follows, "Workers of all countries unite. Long live the international army of labor! Only commanders from the people will lead the Red Army to victory!"
Attribution:
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/sovintro.php
Date:
192?

11. Азбука красноармейца. = ABC of the Red Army.

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ABC of the Red Army. Wrote and painted by D. Moore. Moscow, GIZ, Military Literature Department under the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, 1921. [28] p. With illustrations. In the publishing illustrated the cover of the drawing by D. Moore. 24,1x17,1 cm. The circulation is 5000 copies. Covers and illustrations - chromolithographies
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http://www.raruss.ru/russian-abc/950-moor-alphabet.html
Date:
1921

12. Gramota put' k kommunizmu! = Literacy is a way to communism!

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Artist: Голенкина Алиса Рудольфовна? This iconographic style of an early Soviet poster is attributed as the one with an unknown author. However, stylistically this piece seems to be close to the creation of Alisa R. Golenkina.
Attribution:
http://bit.ly/2tdM9xq
Date:
1920

13. "God proletarskoi diktatury okitabr' 1917- oktiabr' 1918"= "Year of Proletarian Dictatorship

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Author: Aleksandr Aspit М., изд. ВЦИК, 1918 г. 104,5х71 см.
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http://vitanova.ru/galereya/illyustratsii/?aid=95
Date:
1918

14. Konarmii︠a︡.

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Artist/ Illustrator: M. Gorshman. Babelʹ, I, M Gorshman, and V A. Milashevskiĭ. Konarmii︠a︡. Moskva: Gos. izd-vo khudozhestvennoĭ literatury, 1933. Print.
Attribution:
http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b13248507~S1
Date:
1933

15. Konarmii︠a︡.

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Artist: M. Gorshman. Babelʹ, I, M Gorshman, and V A. Milashevskiĭ. Konarmii︠a︡. Moskva: Gos. izd-vo khudozhestvennoĭ literatury, 1933. Print.
Attribution:
http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b13248507~S1
Date:
1933

16. Береги книгу. Она верный товарищ в походе и в мирном труде. = Take care of the book. The [book] is a faithful companion in the campaign and in peaceful labor!

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From the onset of the revolution and throughout the revolutionary tumult, the Soviet power tried to eradicate illiteracy.
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http://propagandahistory.ru/194/Sovetskaya-Rossiya--Plakaty-Likbeza/
Date:
1920

17. K маяку коммунистического интернационала! =To the beacon of the Communist International!

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Artist V. Spassky. "To the beacon of the Communist International". [M.], publishing house VTsIK, [II 1919]
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http://www.kabinet-auktion.com/auction/books25/207/
Date:
1919

18. Клином красным бей белых! = Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge!

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Artist: El Lissitzsky [Lazar Markovich Lisitskii (1890-1941). The poster was created in 1920 in Vitebsk
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http://bit.ly/2tr6jiE
Date:
1920

19. Konarmii︠a︡.

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Artist / Illustrator: V A. Milashevskiĭ. The portrait of the author- Babel' by Milashevskii. Babelʹ, I, M Gorshman, and V A. Milashevskiĭ. Konarmii︠a︡. Moskva: Gos. izd-vo khudozhestvennoĭ literatury, 1933. Print.
Attribution:
http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b13248507~S1
Date:
1933

20. Konarmii︠a︡.

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Artist/Illustrator: M. Gorshman. Babelʹ, I, M Gorshman, and V A. Milashevskiĭ. Konarmii︠a︡. Moskva: Gos. izd-vo khudozhestvennoĭ literatury, 1933. Print.
Attribution:
http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b13248507~S1
Date:
1933