Archive for the ‘Horse Poster’ Category
After the Czar’s overthrow in 1917, a visitor to Soviet Russia was struck by the multitudes of posters—in factories and barracks, on walls and railway-cars, on telephone-poles— everywhere. Whatever the Soviet does, it strives to make the people understand the reason for it.
If there is a new call to arms, if rations must be cut down, if new schools or courses of instruction are opened, a poster promptly appears telling why, and how the people can co-operate. Some of these posters are crude and hurried, others are works of art.
Such is the case with this Bolshevik Poster written in both Russian and Arabic Characters.
This horse poster was created during the Bolshevik Revolution as a call to the working-class of Russia to usher in the new social order of Communism. Read the rest of this entry »
