No less important is a cult of personality that would take a terrible toll under Stalin. A Klutsis poster for a 1931 anti-imperialist exhibition shows a soldier looking through a double periscope.

Slogans like the one on this propaganda poster for Mao Zedong ... Mao,” take on a new smell now that it’s revealed that Stalin may have studied his poop. Public Domain/University of Heidelberg ...

Artists who refused to comply faced the gulag. As author Susan Pack says in her book Film Posters of the Russian Avant-garde, "Stalin may have closed the window of creativity, but not before it ...

(1933). Alongside, we’re shown Klutsis’s workings: a drawing for a poster celebrating the Moscow Metro with a photo of the leader collaged over it. The illusion isn’t complete: out of scale, Stalin ...