Soviet propaganda posters were designed to reach a largely illiterate population and deliver ideological messages instantly.
Last summer, a staffer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was digging through stacks of 19th century drawings when they stumbled upon something strange. It was a nondescript box with the vague label ...
The exhibition explores the remarkably wide-ranging body of propaganda posters created as an artistic consequence of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Marking its centennial, this exhibition delves into a ...
"Viktor Koretsky (1909-1998) was a leading Soviet political poster artist and the acknowledged master of the Soviet photographic poster. With a long and prolific career that spanned the early Stalin ...
There is a fantastic Flickr set of more than 1,400 Soviet-era Russian posters. I've always been a fan of this kind of work, really amazing to see so many all together. My favorite so far, pictured ...
SOFIA -- It's hard to miss the giant, 11-meter-tall statue that towers above Plovdiv, standing proud on top of the Bulgarian city's second-highest hill. Named Alyosha, a generic diminutive used to ...