Soviet Counter- Revolution Poster, 1920's
Date: 1920s
Size: 28 x 34.5
Notes: Poster, Linen Backed
Artist: Anonymous
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About The Poster: “During the revolution of the 1917 working class managed to overthrow the bourgeois social state, declaring the society without classes. The state belonged to the people in general and nobody in particular. This ideology ruled the country for the next 70 years.” Poster text reads Deserter of Work', 'The Deserter of Work Becomes the Voice of the Counter-Revolution'. A friend writes “My Russian's a little rusty but this definitely is a Soviet poster about how 'deserters in the workplace' are lackeys of the counter-revolution. That pretty much rules out it being printed in 1916, which was a full year before the October Revolution and a couple years before they started to put out these kind of production posters (probably not until the 'War Communism' period of 1918-1920, and perhaps later). To me, this looks more like something from the 1920s or 1930s” … so, while we are not quite sure of the exact date of this masterpiece, or of its provenance, there is no doubt of its impact, or its artistry.
