Soviet propaganda posters were designed to reach a largely illiterate population and deliver ideological messages instantly.

Unearthed from deep within a storage space at the Art Institute’s prints and drawings department 10 years ago, the posters reveal some remarkable technical innovations. To the casual student of ...

During the Great Patriotic War, Olga Kosorez volunteered for military service, was stationed on the western front as a radio operator, and participated in the final Soviet assault on Berlin in May ...

Susan Pack's Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde celebrates the experimental film posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union. “The new political structure created by the Bolshevik Revolution ...

In 2000, Oliver Langenberg, Class of 1935, donated nine Soviet propaganda posters from the 1930s to our collection. These huge, exceedingly rare posters document the national effort to inspire the ...

Posters of Josef Stalin may be put up in Moscow for the first time in decades as part of the May 9 observance of Victory Day – the annual celebration of the defeat of Nazi Germany. This year, the 65th ...

Propaganda during Soviet times came in poster form. Some messages stirred patriotism in the fight against Adolf Hitler's invading forces, while others slammed illiteracy and laziness. This year marks ...

MOSCOW --- The leader of Russia's Communist Party defended his party's use of Josef Stalin on election posters. "Under Stalin, we lived 30 years without corruption. This is our history," Gennady ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...