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Poster - Capital Against the USSR

Capital Against the USSR

  • Object:

    Poster

  • Place of origin:

    USSR (made)

  • Date:

    1930 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Gr. Robe (artist)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Colour lithograph

  • Credit Line:

    Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko

  • Museum number:

    E.48-2004

  • Gallery location:

    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3G, shelf DR2

  • Image in copyright

The Soviet Union's enemies are symbolised by a skull wearing a military helmet with a swastika and the legend "War on the USSR". In the eye sockets and nose cavity, counter-revolutionary forces join hands, represented by the Pope, a foreign capitalist and a kulak (a rich peasant). The kulaks had been resisting Stalin's drive to collectivise agriculture and were consequently demonised in propaganda.

Physical description

Cartoon images of the Pope, a foreign capitalist and a wealthy peasant, leaning out of the eye sockets and nasal cavity of a skull.

Place of Origin

USSR (made)

Date

1930 (made)

Artist/maker

Gr. Robe (artist)

Materials and Techniques

Colour lithograph

Marks and inscriptions

(Cyrillic type) from the Russian: Proletariat of the world/ unite in the struggle against capitalism!/ For the victory of communism!

Dimensions

Height: 74.1 cm, Width: 52.8 cm

Descriptive line

Pro-communism Soviet poster published by Gosizdat. USSR, 1930.

Exhibition History

Propaganda Posters from the Schreyer Collection (Henry Cole Wing, Level 3 05/12/2002-23/03/2003)

Materials

Paper; Ink

Techniques

Colour lithography

Subjects depicted

Men; Propaganda; Politics; Helmet; Skull; Communism; Capitalism

Categories

Prints; Propaganda

Collection code

PDP

Qr_O101254
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