Soviet Union Interwar Period Propaganda Poster and Military Art Collection: Soviet Union was formed after the first world war, when Bolsheviks started a revolution. First years there was a bitter civil war between red and whites and since reds concurred, soviet started their totalitarian state.
Soviet Union Interwar Propaganda Poster Collection
Soviet Life
1917 Vladimir Lenin’s Portrait
1918 October 1917 – October 1918
1918 Women, join cooperation
1919 Comrades, preserve works of art
1920 A criminal, he who slaughters cubs!
1920 A ghost wanders around Europe, a ghost of communism
1920 An illiterate man is a blind man
1920 In order to have more – we have to produce more. In order to produce more – you need to know more
1920 Knowledge will break the chains of slavery
1920 That is what October Revolution has given to the worker and peasant women
1920 The first of May. Long live to the holiday of workers of all countries!
1921 Help!
1921 Red Moscow is the heart of the proletarian world revolution
1923 Woman! Learn to read and write!
1923 Workers, high prices and NEP not going to scare us because we have this inexpensive bread!
1923 Best Pacifiers Ever
1923 Children Meeting
1923 Dobrolyot
1924 Young Leninists are Illyich’s children
1924 New money are standing firm, will strengthen the economy of village and city
1924 V. Ulyanov (Lenin). 1870-1924
1925 Every cook must learn how to manage the state
1925 I am not yours anymore, I am with Senia now. He was nice enough to take me out to listen to the Lenin’s speeches.
1925 If you stop reading books, you might become illiterate
1925 Lenin and Electrification
1925 Mothers, do not abandon children!
1925 Sectarian is Kulak’s marionette
1926 Working women, join under the banner of the VKP. Long live to the International Working Womens` Day
1926 Emancipated women, help build socialism!
1926 Proletarian people, participate in Soviet elections!
1926 Stop beating and punishment of children in a family
1926 The sixth part of the world
1927 October
1927 On condition of total cooperation we will be able to have true socialism
1927 Study, Activists!
1927 There can not be revolutionary movement without revolutionary theory
1927 The role of vanguard fighter can be fulfilled only by a party led by an advanced theory
1928 As the back of your hand you will know animal world after attending our Zoo
1928 Do not scold or beat your children. Get a book for them instead
1928 Long live to the 1st of May
1928 Sports Day. August. 1928. Moscow
1928 Give It ‘Comrade Airship’
1929 We state it loud. drunkards be elsewhere
1929 Development of the transport is one of the most important tasks
1929 Do not beat a child! It will cause delay in its development
1929 Everything for the children of both sexes since day of birth
1929 Stop night life!
1930 An Illiterate child is a shame for a mother
1930 Comrade, come join our kolkhoz!
1930 Let’s fulfill plan of the great work!
1930 Let’s hit the target on the State grain procurements fully and on term
1930 Mechanize Donbass
1930 Our ultimatum to the grown-ups!
1930 Pioneer! Learn to fight for the working class cause
1930 Remember that your family is hungry while you are drinking
1930 Skilled workers, don’t mock the young ones
1930 Stalin’s Pipe
1930 Osoaviakhim – Support Of Peaceful Labor And Defense S.S.S.S.R. Give It Soviet Airship
1930 Stop male promiscuity addressed to women!
1930 The White Guard, or rather gang, their aim we know. among the working class discord to sow
1930 Tobacco smoking is expensive and harmful thing for your health and our economy
1930 Tractors and day nurseries are driving force of the new country side
1931 Worker, fight for a clean dining room and a healthy food!
1931 Choose a worker to represent your Indigenous People not a sorcerer or a kulak
1931 Day labourers and Komsomol members, on tractor!
1931 Down with kitchen slavery! Let there be new household life!
1931 Five year plan for the public catering of the L.S.P.O.(Leningrad Union of Consumer Societies)
1931 For the reconstruction of the transport!
1931 Fulfill work norms with a socialist attitude to the steam locomotive and rapid work movement
1931 Keep the quality UP!
1931 Komsomol members, to the shock sowing
1931 Let’s start the second five year plan under the Lenin’s banner!
1931 Shock gathering in for harvest of Bolsheviks
1931 Sleeping at work – playing into the hands of enemies of the working class
1931 The future war will be exceedingly mechanized
1931 The lack of work discipline destroys the transport
1931 The Soviets and electrification are the basis of the new world
1931 Let’s Build A Powerful Soviet Airship ‘Klim Voroshilov’
1931 Let’s Build A Squadron Of Airships Named After Lenin
1931 Let’s Build Squadron Of Airship In Name Of Lenin
1932 Five-Year Plan Will Be Completed And Exceeded in 4 Years
1932 Working men and women of all countries and oppressed colonies hold the banner of Lenin proudly
1932 Workers of factories and farms, join the ranks of the CPSU
1932 15 (-year aniversary of October Revolution)
1932 Deploy large-scale buffet construction!
1932 Eighth of March is the women workers’ day of rebellion against the kitchen slavery
1932 Field workers take part in the battle for socialist reconstruction
1932 For proletarian Park of Culture and Recreation
1932 They Should And Will Fly Over The Soviet Country. Soviet Airship
1932 March 8th is a celebration day of female workers around the world
1932 No mercy to peculators of public property!
1932 Rot Front (Red Front)!
1932 The Soviet trade unions-the vanguard of the world-wide workers’ movement
1932 Trade unions, participate into the counter-plan for the 10 million ton of cast iron production
1933 Women at the kolkhozes are great power
1933 Work, build, and do not whine! We have a new life path specified. You do not have to be an athlete, but obliged to take part in a sport.
1933 Down with the kolkhozes! We are for the kolkhozes
1933 Five year plan of the sugar industry
1933 Here is your lamp, comrade engineer!
1933 Kolkhoznik, guard your fields against the class enemies
1933 Kolkhozniks and individual peasants! Let’s supply bread to the state!
1933 Long live World October
1933 The captain of the Soviet Union leads us from victory to victory!
1933 The target of the Union is overthrow of the bourgeoisie
1934 Welcome to the Congress of Soviet Writers!
1934 Youth, be part of the soviet aviation
1934 Whole Moscow is building the Metro
1934 Be in shape for work and defense!
1934 Every farmer, kolhoznik or individual is now able to live like a human being
1934 Fiery proletarian greetings to Chelyuskinites and heroic pilots who saved them
1935 All world records should be ours
1935 Soviet athletes is the pride of our country
1935 Yes to Moscow Metro!
1935 Women at the kolkhozes are great power
1935 ‘Staff determines everything’, I.V. Stalin
1935 The whole world will be ours!
1936 1837 A. S. Pushkin. 1937
1936 ‘Believe, companion, the star will rise…’ A.S. Pushkin
1936 For a joyful and healthy childhood!
1936 Happy people are being born under the soviet star!
1936 Hold up high banners of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin!
1936 Life has become better and more fun!
1936 People need care. Work for us!
1936 Thanks to dear Stalin for a happy childhood!
1937 Eradicate spies and saboteurs
1937 Everyone has to participate in elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
1937 Long live to our happy Socialist Motherland!
1937 Moscow-Volga Canal is open!
1937 There is no barrier that Bolsheviks can not take over!
1938 Long live equal right women of the USSR
1938 Parade of Athletes is a powerful demonstration of strength and invincibility of the Soviet people
1939 1.January 1939. Happy New Year
1938 USSR – the home country of the largest in the world socialist agriculture
1939 Woman, work on the steam locomotive!
1939 The train goes from the Socialism Station to the Communism Station
1940 Our children should not suffer from diarrhea
1940 Stalin at the Kremlin takes care of everyone of us
Military
1920 Be on guard!
1920 The second anniversary of the Red Army
1924 Red Army and Red Navy are reliable guardians of the USSR
1927 Have you joined OSOAVIAHIM
1927 Red Army is a School for every citizen
1927 Red Army soldier, to every peasant’s hut provide books published by the ‘Gosizdat'(State Publisher)
1930 Black ravens prepare a predatory raid on the USSR. Proletarian be on the alert
1930 On guard of USSR
1930 Osoaviahimovtsy, in joint maneuvers with the Red Army be ready to defend the USSR
1930 Stalin’s spirit makes our army and country strong and powerful!
1932 Every Komsomol girl has to master the battle equipment ot the Soviet defense
1932 Komsomol members! Let’s fulfill comrade Voroshilov’s demands
1932 Long live the multimillion Leninist Komsomol
1932 Long live to the Red Army – an armed troop of the proletarian revolution!
1934 Be glad and take it for a pride to stand in rank of the Red Army soldiers side by side
1934 Komsomolets, a young worker and a pioneer! Be part of aviation.
1935 Long live to the Red Army consisted of workers and farmers — a faithful guard of the Soviet borders!
1936 Be on alert when on guard over the socialist harvest
1936 Each kolkhoz and each plant should share a pilot for our aviation!
1936 Long live to our dear invincible Red Army!
1937 Closing ranks, your comrades side by side
1937 Glory to Stalin’s falcons-conquerors of the air space!
1937 Long live to the invincible Red Army!
1938 Art exhibition. 20 years of the Red Army
1938 If the war starts tomorrow…
1938 Long live to our dear invincible Red Army!
1938 Strongest in the air is the strongest overall in our time
1939 Long live to the mighty aviation of the socialist country!
1939 Long live to the Soviet pilots, proud falcons of our Motherland!
1939 Our army is the army of the liberation of the working people of the whole earth
1940 Long live to the invincible Red Army!
Anti-kapitalism
1939 Fascism is the enemy of culture
International Communism
1932 China is on the path of liberation from imperialism
Anti-Alcohol
1929 Father, don’t drink
1929 Let’s drive out topers from the midst of workers!
1929 Shame on those getting wages at the back door!
1929 Stop. Last Warning.
1930 Fight against the enemy of the cultural revolution!
1930 Let’s smash it!
Advertising
1917 Tale of the body and the song of the soul
1923 Most business-like, neatest (GUM’s Advertising)
1924 Kino-Eye
1924 Read the magazine ‘Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard)’
1925 Best cigarettes in Far East region. State Tobacco Factory Vladivostok
1925 Lengiz, books for all branches of knowledge
1925 Teacher Bubus, comedy (Theater)
1925 The subscription to the ‘Faculty Working at home’ is available now
1925 The Trehgornoye Beer will drive out hypocrites and samogon
1926 Cigarettes ‘Cannons’
1926 Flea (Theater)
1926 Journey to Mars
1926 Products of Mosselprom
1926 The Battleship Potemkin. 1905
1926 The Mother
1926 Tram Advertisement. It is read everyday by million of people
1927 Red Army soldier, to every peasant’s hut provide books published by the ‘Gosizdat'(State Publisher)
1927 Since February 21 The Leningradodezhda'(‘Leningrad garments’) lowered prices on all products
1927 Smoke ‘The Pack’ cigarettes. Nowhere except Mosselprom
1927 Tobacco products by Mosselprom
1928 I drink only the beer and the waters made by the plant South Bavaria
1928 The Eleventh
1928 The Entrance to the Zoo cost only forty kopeks
1928 The second all-Union lottery of the OSOAVIAKHIM
1929 Autodor (Automobile Roads) Lottery
1929 Communard’s pipe
1929 Good news! Cigarettes ‘Sappho’ are sold everywhere now.
1929 New Magazine Daesh
1929 Rezinotrust. USSR. Moscow
1929 Smoke Capitan’s Cigars
1929 Stocko, the best shoe shine paste
1929 The State Circus. The Dourov’s railway
1929 The subscription to the magazine ‘Construction of Moscow’ is available now
1930 Fruit beverage by Mosselprom
1930 I read the Crocodile magazine
1930 Taffy candy by Mosselprom
1930 The third lottery of the OZET (Society for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land)
1931 New Magazine ‘Moscow Speaking’
1932 Canned Sturgeon ‘Socra’
1932 Purchase the OSVOD’s lottery tickets!
1934 Jolly Fellows
1935 Chapaev
1935 The Plump Girl
1936 Pelmeni
1936 Smoke ‘Derby’ cigarettes
1936 The State Circus. The ‘Flying torpedo’ attraction
1937 Smokers the question is settled. There is no better cigarettes than this
1937 The hot Moscow meat putty with a bun. 50 kopeeks
1938 Alexander Nevskiy
1938 Bitter Liqueurs
1938 It is worth to find out how delicious and delicate crabs taste
1938 The toothpaste Sanit.
1940 Insist on beer poured fully right up to the 0,5L mark
Soviet Union Interwar Period Military Art Collection
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