Who can forget there was such a year (1937)
Poster
1989 (published)
1989 (published)
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Poster depicting a building made up of the numbers 1937. There is one barred window in the structure. The text roughly translates as 'Who can forget there was such a year, there was. But it could come again if we were to forget it'. The date refers to the year of the so-called 'Great Purge' or 'Great Terror' of political repression, surveillance, and murder carried out by the Stalinist regime. The period is also known as Yezhovshchina after Nikolai Yezhov, the head of the Soviet secret police, under whose direction many of the executions and arrests were carried out. Yezhov himself also fell under suspicion and was executed in 1940.
Object details
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| Title | Who can forget there was such a year (1937) (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph |
| Brief description | Poster by the Battling Pencil group from a portfolio of 24 entitled 'Perestroika For and Against'. Russia, 1989. |
| Physical description | Poster depicting a building made up of the numbers 1937. There is one barred window in the structure. The text roughly translates as 'Who can forget there was such a year, there was. But it could come again if we were to forget it'. The date refers to the year of the so-called 'Great Purge' or 'Great Terror' of political repression, surveillance, and murder carried out by the Stalinist regime. The period is also known as Yezhovshchina after Nikolai Yezhov, the head of the Soviet secret police, under whose direction many of the executions and arrests were carried out. Yezhov himself also fell under suspicion and was executed in 1940. |
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| Credit line | Given by Peggy Vance |
| Production | Attribution note: published in a print run of 5,000 |
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| Accession number | E.378-1990 |
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| Record created | February 18, 2009 |
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