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 ...

The evolution of propaganda posters reflected what Soviet women were supposed to be like and their changing image and role in society. The USSR was arguably the first country to put the ideas of ...

(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 ...