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1926-1940: Soviet Union and Stalin

GUSTAV KLUTSIS

Latvian, 1895-1938

"A system of Party Enlightenment — without revolutionary theory — cannot exist"

1927

Lithograph

42¼ x 28½

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.

ARTIST UNKNOWN

The Bedfellows of Capitalism

1927

Lithograph

37½ x 27½

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

VALENTINA KULAGINA

Russian, 1902-1987

"1905: The Road to October"

1929

Lithograph

41¼ x 29¼

VIKTOR DENI

Russian, 1893-1946

"Murderers of the five-year plan"

after a poster dated 1929

Offset lithograph

4 x 5¾

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

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

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

VALENTINA KULAGINA

Russian, 1902-1987

"International Working Women's Day is the day of judging of socialist competition"

1930

Lithograph

43¼ x 28½

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

LĚTKAR

Russian/Ukranian

"Prepare to resist the growing reaction! Long live the international solidarity of the proletariat!"

c. 1930

Lithograph

27¾ x 21

ARTIST UNKNOWN

"Stalinists! Broaden the front of shock-workers"

c. 1930

Lithograph

39½ x 28

VIKTOR DENI

Russian, 1893-1946

The Democracy of Mr. Lynch

1930s

Offset lithograph

5¾ x 4

GUSTAV KLUTSIS

Latvian, 1895-1938

"The USSR is the Stakhanovite brigade of the world's proletariat"

1931

Lithograph

57¼ x 41

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

SERGEI SENKIN

Russian, 1894-1963

"Under the banner of Lenin for the second five-year plan!"

1931

Lithograph

55 x 39½

VSTRACHOV

"Fulfill the five year plan for coal in three years"

1931

Lithograph

41¼ x 27¼

ARTIST UNKNOWN

"Give your raw materials to socialist industry"

1931

Lithograph

37 x 26¼

NIKOLAI DOLGORUKOV

Russian, 1902-1980

"Workers of the world, unite! For a worldwide October!"

1932

Lithograph

56½ x 39

IULII GANF

Ukrainian, 1898-1973

The Ship of Capitalism

1932

Lithograph

39¾ x 23½

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

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

DMITRI MOOR

Russian, 1883-1946

"Freedom to the prisoners of Scottsboro!"

1932

Lithograph

40½ x 28¾

BORIS KLINČ

1892-1946

"Fire hard at the class enemy!"

1933

Lithograph

30¾ x 20½

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

NATALJA PINUS

Czech, 1901-1986

"Women in the collective farms are a great force"

1933

Lithograph

31½ x 63½

NIKOLAI DOLGORUKOV

Russian, 1902-1980

"Long live the great, unconquerable banner of Marx, Engels and Lenin!"

1934

Lithograph

68¾ x 20¼

DMITRI MOOR

Russian, 1883-1946

The Red Army keeps the capitalist pigs penned up

1934

Ink on cardboard

8½ x 13¾

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

THE KUKRYNIKSY

(MIKHAIL KUPRIANOV, PORFIRY KRYLOV, and NIKOLAI SOKOLOV)

Russian: 1903-1991, 1902-1990, and 1903-, respectively

Hitler and Mussolini reviewing the Fascist leadership

1936

Ink and watercolor on cardboard

16¾ x 16

THE KUKRYNIKSY

(MIKHAIL KUPRIANOV, PORFIRY KRYLOV, and NIKOLAI SOKOLOV)

Russian: 1903-1991, 1902-1990, and 1903-, respectively

Goebbels ladling out propaganda to the Russian émigré (non-Communist) press

1937

Ink, pencil, crayon, and watercolor on paper and cardboard

15¼ x 12¼

THE KUKRYNIKSY

(MIKHAIL KUPRIANOV, PORFIRY KRYLOV, and NIKOLAI SOKOLOV)

Russian: 1903-1991, 1902-1990, and 1903-, respectively

Stalin's enemies supporting the Nazis

1937

Ink, sprayed ink, watercolor on cardboard

16 x 13¼

DMITRI MOOR

Russian, 1883-1946

"Comrade! [We want] YOU! Have you signed on to strengthen our motherland?"

1937

Lithograph

40¾ x 26¾

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

ARTIST UNKNOWN

"Protect the harvest from fire and you will secure bread for the nation"

c. 1940

Lithograph

38¾ x 26