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Then, about six years ago, I suffered a really serious illness, after which I decided to retrain as a graphic designer, something I'd always wanted to do. Grigorian started collecting Soviet posters in the mid 1990s, following a period collecting Soviet stamps. Launched in 2009, we explore the best in creativity and deliver news, inspiration, insight and advice to help you succeed. Dejneka worked as a photographer, designed propaganda trains, produced posters and took part in Soviet theater performances.

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The posters that make up a generous gift to St Edmund Hall by our benefactor Mr Bill Broadbent are vivid examples of the genre. Having scoured the mass of Soviet propaganda images, Fiks has brought together about 200 images to create the Wayland Rudd Archive. More often than not, Polish artists avoided a "literal translation of the plot" and instead sought to express the overall mood of the movie. From 1952 to 1989, the Soviet bloc controlled Poland, and posters were often the only spots of color along the gray, quiet streets in Polish cities. Originally from Oklahoma, she has been covering visual culture and overlooked history for print and online media since 2006.

Approached by the Ministry of Arts and Culture to design a film poster, he said he would only do it if he was given complete artistic free rein. Yet for many, this image, entitled No to Chemical Weapons, is compelling and desirable — a vivid reminder of the not-so-distant Cold War. Some of them are so outside the bounds of what we'd expect a movie poster to be that they have to be seen to be believed. These images permeated all areas of everyday life and were reproduced on all manner of objects including matchboxes, which before had usually shown images from Chinese folklore.

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Some of the most expressive, meaningful and original posters of the time actually came from Poland, and they're very different from what you might expect. Many artworks had a positive effect on the public moral and promoted hope, friendship and a healthy lifestyle. In the post-WWI era German and Norwegian posters above, Godzilla-sized Communists lay waste to entire cities. None could be more visceral than the poster with the heading 1917 October 1920 surmounting the unmistakable Red Army Soldier—very red indeed!They spearheaded the interrogation, humiliation and beatings of teachers and intellectuals, and travelled the country destroying cultural heritage.

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This blog is inspired by a recent donation of Russian Revolution posters by Bill Broadbent to St Edmund Hall. Communist Posters also examines the graphic design of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, Mongolia, and communist countries in Eastern Europe through over 300 illustrations.During China’s Cultural Revolution traditional artists were condemned as counter-revolutionaries and imprisoned. Africans and African-Americans did indeed come to the Soviet Union, even in the 1930s, says Russian-born, New York-resident artist Yevgeniy Fiks.

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My friends who weren't interested in my stamp collection were suddenly very interested in these,” he said. They could also advertise recruitment to one side of the battle for or against the Bolshevik government. From the earliest days of their little lives, they must find themselves under the beneficent influence of Communist schools. Going back to 1914, artists such as Kazimir Malevich worked on propaganda art that skewered Kaiser Wilhelm II, and that avant-garde style would later fuse with references to Russian religiousicons that used the color red to symbolizesalvation and faith.In the 50s and 60s, pop culture media like film and comic books lent themselves particularly well to anti-Communist propaganda, and they were exploited relentlessly by government agencies, production companies, and corporations. It can be divided into three main series, each representing distinct eras in the history of Communist political advertising.

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