Russian Revolution Posters

What's Propaganda?
Propaganda is the information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause or important events, such as electives of presidents or prime ministers. It could either be true or false infomation given to people, but mostly false in order to make people agree with you(Political party/Government/Important Ideals). We could learn history by using propaganda to debate between justice and injustice.




This is a poster that shows communist countries united together, but Russia's flag was on the top of all flags, this also meant Russia is the leader of all communist countries. This poster is trying to show communist citizens that socialism equals peace. The poster includes countries such as Russia, East Germany, Rumania, Poland, and etc. This poster also convinces the communist people to unite up and overthrow the capitalist countries. This poster is effective to the communist countries, because it shows the strength/power together in one. But this poster failed to show the meaning of peace, because the picture doesn't show socialism equals peace, it was supported with the subtitles.





This is a poster that wants every communist soldier be ready to fight as a minuteman. It wants to convince all communist soldiers to protect and gaurd their homeland. The poster shows that Russia is strong in all kinds of three military forces, the navy, air force, and army. It wants the soldier to kill a target in the first shot. The poster also wants all the soldiers to obey their commander. This poster looks effective because it shows how strong the Russian military is and cooperation would crush the enemies easy.







This poster shows us the workers holding up the map of Russia. The publisher wants everybody to know that Russia is a country where workers cooperate with each other. The workers are standing side to side and looking up at the flag ( shape of Russia) means the uprising of Russia. The message of the poster was "Your work, my work for the homeland", this meant they are in a state of government called Communism. I think the poster is trying to make russian people think of "cooperation", because everything relates to cooperation to make a country strong. This poster looks effective because I really liked the idea of "cooperation".

This poster's message is "Peace, work, May Day". The publisher made the soviet sign become a part of a dove in order to show us international peace sign. The soviet sign was made to show the russian people that working would get you peace and May Day (Renewal/Pleasure day). The background is red, so I think this is a example of communism, because communism states that you have to work your hardest to gain what you are in need of. A good propaganda poster doesn't need much words or none, this poster shows three words, but it cleary demostrates the issue during that time of the revolution.

This poster's message is basically showing the strong military force of the Red Army during Stalin's rule of Russia. The red wall with a soviet sign on it represents the Red Army's territory. The missiles and artilleryman beside the walls are to show the defense line of Russia during Stalin's rule. To demostrate Stalin's security toward his people, this poster was made to benefit him. Eventually very effective against the citizens of Russia during that time, becuase they would never know how the defense line would look like.

This poster's message is "The real weight of peace". The gun represents violet/death/kill, vice versa the dove represents peace/holy/freedom. In order to continue Lenin's belief toward peace, someone published this poster to show peace could always overcome violet, this is the same pricipal of light always overcome dark. In this picture the dove sitting on the gun made it bend down, this also meant the weight of peace is greater than the weight of hatrad. The poster looks effective to me because it has good intensions to life, I always thought that light shall beat dark.