Soviet Poster Research

SOVIET POSTERS AND PROPAGANDA

V. Pshenichnikov, Russian Poster Dealing with the Five Year Plan, 1931

Soviet propaganda became the focus of much attention, many people in many countries turned their attention to this art form which began more than a century ago in a country that, since Perestroika, has ceased to exist. 

The main period of interest addresses posters created between the 1917 October 'Socialist Revolution' and the 1980s. 

The poster form existed well before the Revolution, and the first Russian posters date back to the 1880s. Posters were extremely helpful and important during the Civil War and 1917 October Revolution, they often replaced newspaper tabloids and instead posters were printed, posters were sent to the front-lines to keep the soldiers in spirit, tearing the posters down was seen as committing a counter-revolutionary crime.  

Soviet Posters: The Sergio Grigorian Collection 

Maria Lafont



Some of the best propaganda posters were created by artists like Dmitry Moor, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Mikhail Cheremnykh. Their work used unique methods and techniques to create empathetic propaganda posters that influenced a lot more propaganda artists.

Mikhail Cheremnykh, The Sectarian is the Kulaks' Puppet', 1925.

Dmitry Moor, Have You Enlisted in the Army?

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Maiakovskaia galereia. Te kogo ia nikogda ne videl, 1923

Mikhail Cheremnykh, Antireligious ABC, 1933

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Agitprop