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Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin

Bonnell, Victoria E. | 1998
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ISBN0520087127
LC No.DK266.3.B58 1998
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MAIN LANGUAGEEnglish
ORIGINAL LANGUAGEEnglish

Masters at visual propaganda, the Bolsheviks produced thousands of vivid and compelling posters after they seized power in October 1917. Intended for a semi-literate population that was accustomed to the rich visual legacy of the Russian autocracy and the Orthodox Church, political posters came to occupy a central place in the regime's effort to imprint itself on the hearts and minds of the people and to remold them into the new Soviet women and men. In this first sociological study of Soviet political posters, Victoria Bonnell analyzes the shifts that took place in the images, messages, styles, and functions of political art from 1917 to 1953.

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