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Artist/Maker	V.Z. or Z.V. (artist)
Place of origin	Russia (made)

This is a recruiting poster for the White (anti-Bolshevik) forces who fought on even after the assassination of former Tsar Nicholas II and his family at Ekaterinburg in 1918. The poster text is lettered in pre-Revolutionary script. The image of a stricken woman cradling her dead child is designed for viewers to equate the Bolshevik forces with ruthless death and destruction.

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Categories	Prints Propaganda Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Go and save them (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Lithograph printed in black and red Ink Paper Lithography
Brief description	Civil War recruiting poster. Russia, c.1919. Lithograph printed in black and red.
Physical description	Four lines of pre-Revolutionary Russian script. Main image depicts an emaciated woman fleeing a burning town, carrying an emaciated child in her arms. Printed in black and red.
Dimensions	Height: 106cm Width: 71.2cm
Marks and inscriptions	V.Z. or Z.V. (monogram, lower right corner) Four lines of pre-Revolutionary Russian script (printed across the upper margins of the poster) Translation Your countrymen and relatives Are under of the yoke of the Bolshevik commissars. They are dying from violence and starvation. They are calling you. Go and save them.
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
Subjects depicted	Propaganda Violence Recruitment Woman Child Village Flames
Place depicted	Russia
Summary	This is a recruiting poster for the White (anti-Bolshevik) forces who fought on even after the assassination of former Tsar Nicholas II and his family at Ekaterinburg in 1918. The poster text is lettered in pre-Revolutionary script. The image of a stricken woman cradling her dead child is designed for viewers to equate the Bolshevik forces with ruthless death and destruction.
Other number	LS.1801 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1820-2004

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Record created	July 26, 2004
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O101948/go-and-save-them-poster-vz-or-zv/

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