MIKHAIL BALJASNIJ
1892-1970
"Communism means soviets [popular councils], plus the electrification of the whole country. Let us transform the USSR through socialist industrialization"
1930
Lithograph
29¼ x 27¾
In the captions artists' titles are in italics, descriptive titles are in roman, and inscriptions taken from the artwork are in quotation marks.
Dimensions are in inches.
BRIGADE KGK3
(VIKTOR KORETSKY, VERA GITSEVICH, and BORIS KNOBLOK)
Ukrainian 1909-1998, Russian 1897-1976, and Unknown, respectively
"Long live International Women's Day"
c. 1930
Lithograph
36¾ x 23
NIKOLAI CHOMOV and IURII MERKULOV
Ukrainian 1903-1974, and Unknown, respectively
"Fulfill the five-year plan not in five years, but in four"
1930
Lithograph
21¾ x 13½
VIKTOR DENI
Russian, 1893-1946
"Death to capital — or death under the heel of capital!"
1919
Lithograph
28¼ x 42
VIKTOR DENI
Russian, 1893-1946
"The final hour"
1920
Lithograph
28 x 21¼
VIKTOR DENI
Russian, 1893-1946
"International Red Day — The day to mobilize the proletariat of the world against the armies of imperialism"
1929
Lithograph
20½ x 26¾
NIKOLAI DOLGORUKOV
Russian, 1902-1980
"Workers of the world, unite! For a worldwide October!"
1932
Lithograph
56½ x 39
NIKOLAI DOLGORUKOV
Russian, 1902-1980
"Long live the great, unconquerable banner of Marx, Engels and Lenin!"
1934
Lithograph
68¾ x 20¼
NIKOLAI DOLGORUKOV and BORIS EFIMOV
Russian: 1902-1980 and 1900-, respectively
"Death to the Nazi occupiers!"
1942
Lithograph
33½ x 23¼
BORIS EFIMOV
Russian, 1900-
"Forces of peace with Soviet Union at their head are invincible!"
1949
Lithograph
25 x 33
VLADIMIR GALB
"The Lion's Share"
c. 1923
Lithograph
19 x 26½
IULII GANF
Ukrainian, 1898-1973
The Ship of Capitalism
1932
Lithograph
39¾ x 23½
FRANTIŠEK GROSS and KAREL LUDWIG
Czech: 1909-1985 and Unknown, respectively
"Greetings to the Red Army"
1945
Lithograph
37½ x 24¾
LEV HAAS
Czech, 1901-1983
"Do not trust him! The kulak is the most hardened enemy of socialism"
1953
Lithograph
33 x 21¼
LEV HAAS
Czech, 1901-1983
"There: elections are directed by monopolistic American agents; Here: free elections such as never before during the bourgeois regime"
1954
Lithograph
20 x 32¾
N. JURESKU
Tito joins the West
1950
Lithograph
21¼ x 16¾
NAUM KARPOVSKY
1907-1978
"Glory to the great October leaders!"
1952
Lithograph
21¼ x 29¾
J. KERŠIN
"'The Rights of Man,' American style"
1978
Lithograph
17¼ x 26½
BORIS KLINČ
1892-1946
"Fire hard at the class enemy!"
1933
Lithograph
30¾ x 20½
GUSTAV KLUTSIS
Latvian, 1895-1938
"A system of Party Enlightenment — without revolutionary theory — cannot exist"
1927
Lithograph
42¼ x 28½
GUSTAV KLUTSIS
Latvian, 1895-1938
"Under the banner of Lenin for socialist construction"
1930
Lithograph
37 x 27
GUSTAV KLUTSIS
Latvian, 1895-1938
"We will repay the country's coal debt"
1930
Lithograph
41 x 28¾
GUSTAV KLUTSIS
Latvian, 1895-1938
"The USSR is the Stakhanovite brigade of the world's proletariat"
1931
Lithograph
57¼ x 41
GUSTAV KLUTSIS
Latvian, 1895-1938
"Passionate greetings from the inventor of proletarian literature"
1932
Lithograph
36½ x 23½
GUSTAV KLUTSIS
Latvian, 1895-1938
"The victory of socialism in our country is guaranteed"
1932
Lithograph
81½ x 56¾
GUSTAV KLUTSIS
Latvian, 1895-1938
"Long live the world October"
1933
Lithograph
63¼ x 40¾
GUSTAV KLUTSIS
Latvian, 1895-1938
"Raise Higher the Banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin!"
1933
Lithograph
20 x 37¼
GUSTAV KLUTSIS
Latvian, 1895-1938
"The goal of the alliance is to destroy bourgeois domination of the proletariat and to create the new"
1933
Lithograph
59¼ x 40½
GUSTAV KLUTSIS
Latvian, 1895-1938
"Long live the USSR, model of brotherhood among the workers of world nationalities"
1935
Lithograph
24¾ x 35¼
GUSTAV KLUTSIS
Latvian, 1895-1938
"Cadres decide everything"
1936
Lithograph
77½ x 28¾
BORIS KNOBLOK
"We'll engage hundreds of thousands of working women in socialist production in collective farms, state farms and machine tractor stations"
1932
Lithograph
39¼ x 27½
ALEXEI KOKOREKIN
Russian, 1906-1959
"Thus it will be with the Fascist monster!"
1944
Lithograph
30½ x 20
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
"Be a Hero!"
1941
Lithograph
34½ x 23½
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
"Red Army soldier, save us!"
1942
Lithograph
14 x 9¼
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
"The motherland will never forget the heroic deeds of its sons!"
1947
Lithograph
34 x 24
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
"In socialism, there is no place for unemployment! In capitalism, there are millions of unemployed!"
1950
Lithograph
23¼ x 33½
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
"We demand peace!"
1950
Lithograph
46½ x 31½
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
"You will not strangle the freedom of the Arab peoples!"
1958
Lithograph
22 x 33¾
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
Collective farm workers urge competition
1960
Lithograph
26¼ x 40½
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
"Lenin, always with us!"
1962
Lithograph
41½ x 80¼
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
"If this is freedom, then what is prison?"
1968
Lithograph
46 x 23
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
"The shame of America"
1968
Lithograph
39¾ x 27¼
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
American Politics at home and abroad
1970
Lithograph
22¾ x 33
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
"Their 'democracy'"
1971
Lithograph
36¼ x 25½
VIKTOR KORETSKY
Ukrainian, 1909-1998
"On the Leninist course towards communism!"
1976
Lithograph
41 x 81
THE KUKRYNIKSY
(MIKHAIL KUPRIANOV, PORFIRY KRYLOV, and NIKOLAI SOKOLOV)
Russian: 1903-1991, 1902-1990, and 1903-, respectively
"In Moscow, searchlights reveal the fascist snakes..."
1941
Lithograph
35¼ x 22½
THE KUKRYNIKSY
(MIKHAIL KUPRIANOV, PORFIRY KRYLOV, and NIKOLAI SOKOLOV)
Russian: 1903-1991, 1902-1990, and 1903-, respectively
"This evil enemy won't get out of the knot we've got him in! Treaty of solidarity between the Soviet Union, England, and the United States"
1942
Lithograph
23 x 32½
VALENTINA KULAGINA
Russian, 1902-1987
"1905: The Road to October"
1929
Lithograph
41¼ x 29¼
VALENTINA KULAGINA
Russian, 1902-1987
"International Working Women's Day is the day of judging of socialist competition"
1930
Lithograph
43¼ x 28½
VALENTINA KULAGINA
Russian, 1902-1987
"For socialist industry we will produce 8 million tons of alloy in 1931"
1931
Lithograph
28½ x 20½
VALENTINA KULAGINA
Russian, 1902-1987
"Women shock-workers! Strengthen shock-brigades, master the machinery, join the proletarian specialists' personnel"
1931
Lithograph
39½ x 28¼
FRANTIŠEK KUPKA
Czech, 1871-1957
"The master of the world is capital, the golden idol"
1919
Lithograph
20 x 13¾
LĚTKAR
Russian/Ukranian
"Prepare to resist the growing reaction! Long live the international solidarity of the proletariat!"
c. 1930
Lithograph
27¾ x 21
EL LISSITZKY
Russian, 1890-1941
"Everything for the front! Everything for victory!"
1942
Lithograph
35¼ x 23¼
VLADIMIR LUPPIAN
"The Third [Communist] International"
c. 1920
Lithograph
21¾ x 13½
DMITRI MOOR
Russian, 1883-1946
"People's Court"
1919
Lithograph
12½ x 19¼
DMITRI MOOR
Russian, 1883-1946
"October 1917 - October 1920. Long Live the Worldwide Red October!"
1920
Lithograph
27½ x 42
DMITRI MOOR
Russian, 1883-1946
"Before: One with the plough, seven with a spoon. Now: He who does not work shall not eat"
1920
Lithograph
18 x 13
DMITRI MOOR
Russian, 1883-1946
"Cossack! They forced you into a terrible deed against working people. Cossack! Turn your horse and confront the real enemy — the parasite"
c. 1920
Lithograph
27 x 19½
DMITRI MOOR
Russian, 1883-1946
The Bloody Path of Struggle is Over
1921
Lithograph
13½ x 41½
DMITRI MOOR
Russian, 1883-1946
"Freedom to the prisoners of Scottsboro!"
1932
Lithograph
40½ x 28¾
DMITRI MOOR
Russian, 1883-1946
"Comrade! [We want] YOU! Have you signed on to strengthen our motherland?"
1937
Lithograph
40¾ x 26¾
VADIM NEVSKY
1884-around 1938
"Peasant! Look who you're paying under the Tsar and Kolchak. Peasant! Know that with your tax you are feeding hungry workers and peasants"
c. 1920
Lithograph
13¾ x 22½
ANTONÍN PELC
Czech, 1895-1967
"Peace! Away with the shameful Paris Agreements! Away with the remilitarization of Western Germany!"
1954
Lithograph
16¾ x 11¾
NATALJA PINUS
Czech, 1901-1986
"Women in the collective farms are a great force"
1933
Lithograph
31½ x 63½
ARTIST UNKNOWN
ROSTA Window series #160
"1. and a plow"
c. 1920
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
approx. 22¼ x 17
ARTIST UNKNOWN
ROSTA Window series #160
"2. and a locomotive"
c. 1920
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
approx. 22¼ x 17
ARTIST UNKNOWN
ROSTA Window series #160
"3. and a steamship"
c. 1920
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
approx. 22¼ x 17
ARTIST UNKNOWN
ROSTA Window series #160
"4. and our [collective] home"
c. 1920
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
approx. 22¼ x 17
ARTIST UNKNOWN
ROSTA Window series #160
"5. the worker creates collective labor"
c. 1920
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
approx. 22¼ x 17
ARTIST UNKNOWN
ROSTA Window series #160
"6. and if there is neither a 'you' nor a 'me' it means we have achieved collective production"
c. 1920
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
approx. 22¼ x 17
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY
Russian, 1893-1930
ROSTA Window series #42
Sowing Campaign: Let's fulfill the decree!
"1. Everyone fulfilled the Soviet plan"
February 1921
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
15¾ x 16¼ to 17 x 16¾ each
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY
Russian, 1893-1930
ROSTA Window series #42
Sowing Campaign: Let's fulfill the decree!
"2. I wasted no time and worked with dedication"
February 1921
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
15¾ x 16¼ to 17 x 16¾ each
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY
Russian, 1893-1930
ROSTA Window series #42
Sowing Campaign: Let's fulfill the decree!
"3. For this I was immediately rewarded"
February 1921
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
15¾ x 16¼ to 17 x 16¾ each
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY
Russian, 1893-1930
ROSTA Window series #42
Sowing Campaign: Let's fulfill the decree!
"4. With a prize and a decoration!"
February 1921
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
15¾ x 16¼ to 17 x 16¾ each
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY and MIKHAIL CHEREMNYKH
Russian: 1893-1930 and 1890-1962, respectively
ROSTA Window series #81
All for Farming Equipment Repair Week!
"1. Those are the weapons our factories used to produce"
March 1921
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
20½ x 13½ to 21¼ x 14¼ each
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY and MIKHAIL CHEREMNYKH
Russian: 1893-1930 and 1890-1962, respectively
ROSTA Window series #81
All for Farming Equipment Repair Week!
"2. Now we have a new kind of weapon to use"
March 1921
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
20½ x 13½ to 21¼ x 14¼ each
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY and MIKHAIL CHEREMNYKH
Russian: 1893-1930 and 1890-1962, respectively
ROSTA Window series #81
All for Farming Equipment Repair Week!
"3. For Spring's arrival we must prepare —"
March 1921
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
20½ x 13½ to 21¼ x 14¼ each
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY and MIKHAIL CHEREMNYKH
Russian: 1893-1930 and 1890-1962, respectively
ROSTA Window series #81
All for Farming Equipment Repair Week!
"4. Get the plough and harrow in full repair"
March 1921
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
20½ x 13½ to 21¼ x 14¼ each
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY and MIKHAIL CHEREMNYKH
Russian: 1893-1930 and 1890-1962, respectively
ROSTA Window series #81
All for Farming Equipment Repair Week!
"5. Worker! A new front has opened"
March 1921
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
20½ x 13½ to 21¼ x 14¼ each
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY and MIKHAIL CHEREMNYKH
Russian: 1893-1930 and 1890-1962, respectively
ROSTA Window series #81
All for Farming Equipment Repair Week!
"6. Quickly, go fix the farming equipment!"
March 1921
Hand-cut stencils with watercolor pigment
20½ x 13½ to 21¼ x 14¼ each
N. Š.
"The power of the bourgeoisie is the power of violence and death"
c. 1919
Lithograph
21½ x 31
WOLFGANG SCHLOSSER
Czech, 1913-1984
"Firm Foundation: Fy Adenauer, formerly Adolf Hitler & Co."
1953
Lithograph
23¼ x 16½
SERGEI SENKIN
Russian, 1894-1963
"Under the banner of Lenin for the second five-year plan!"
1931
Lithograph
55 x 39½
BOHUMIL ŠTĚPÁN
Czech, 1913-1985
"Yesterday a collaborator/Today an alarmist"
c. 1945
Lithograph
49¼ x 36¼
IRAKLII TOIDZE
Russian, 1902-1985
"Under the banner of Lenin, with the leadership of Stalin, forward to the victory of Communism"
1940
Lithograph
47¼ x 33
V. VLASOV, T. POVZNĚR, and T. ŠIŠMAREVA
"Death to fascism"
1941
Lithograph
24½ x 36¼
VSTRACHOV
"Fulfill the five year plan for coal in three years"
1931
Lithograph
41¼ x 27¼
ALEXANDER ZHITOMIRSKY
Russian, 1907-1993
"Get him out of Vietnam!"
1971
Lithograph
34¼ x 23
ARTIST UNKNOWN
"Retribution"
1918-1920
Lithograph
34¾ x 24½
ARTIST UNKNOWN
"All-Russian Central Alliance of Cooperatives. Women, enter the cooperatives!"
c. 1919
Lithograph
20¾ x 28¼
ARTIST UNKNOWN
The bourgeoisie of the Entente succumbs to the new alliance of workers and peasants
c. 1920
Lithograph
19¾ x 35½
ARTIST UNKNOWN
"The Constituent Assembly"
1921
Lithograph
29 x 21
ARTIST UNKNOWN
The Bedfellows of Capitalism
1927
Lithograph
37½ x 27½
ARTIST UNKNOWN
"Stalinists! Broaden the front of shock-workers"
c. 1930
Lithograph
39½ x 28
ARTIST UNKNOWN
"Give your raw materials to socialist industry"
1931
Lithograph
37 x 26¼
ARTIST UNKNOWN
"Protect the harvest from fire and you will secure bread for the nation"
c. 1940
Lithograph
38¾ x 26
ARTIST UNKNOWN
"Parrot talk" (silly nonsense)
1942
Lithograph
19½ x 27½
ARTIST UNKNOWN
The allied forces destroy the swastika
1945
Lithograph
20 x 23¾
ARTIST UNKNOWN
"Vote list 1 for the communists"
1948
Lithograph
41 x 32
ARTIST UNKNOWN
"The nations of the world do not want to repeat the horror of war again"
c. 1950
Lithograph
23½ x 33
ARTIST UNKNOWN
"V. I. Lenin died on 21 January 1924"
1950s
Lithograph
33 x 23¼
