Transcript Russian Civil War Propaganda Posters

Russian Civil War
Propaganda Posters
Our Courageous Cossack
Kriuchkov (Red Cossack)
White army Propaganda Poster
Tsar,
Pope and
Bourgeois
(1920)
White propaganda poster
in the Russian Civil War –
The Revolution of the
Masses as a dragon and
the landlords, bosses,
imperialists and antisemitic hordes as a white
knight
Have you
enlisted in the
army?
A 1920
Bolshevik
poster
entitled, “The
Last Battle”.
Shows a Red
Army soldier
knocking a
This 1919 Bolshevik poster shows the three
white generals Denikin, Kolchak and Yudenich as
three vicious dogs wh are under control of
America, France and Britain.
Muslim Cavalry
Division Officer
Russian Civil War –
White Army
recruitment poster.
Only the close union of workers and
peasants will save Russia
Soviet AntiReligion Poster
1920’s
Text reads:
“Religion –
Poison. Save
the Children.”
Death to World
Imperialism
Ukranians and
Russians have
common call –
No Master
over Worker
Tsar, Pope
and the Rich
on the
Worker’s
shoulders.
In this White (anti-Bolshevik) poster,
caricatures of the Bolshevik leadership
(Uritzky, Sverdlov, Zinoviev, Lunacharsky,
Lenin, Patrovsky, Trotsky, Kamenev, and
Radek) sacrifice an allegorical figure
representing Russia to the idol of
internationalism resembling Karl Marx. In
the background, Alexander Kerensky (who
had been Prime Minister of the Provisional
Government at the time of the Bolshevik
coup in November 1917) looks on
impotently. In the foreground are racial and
class stereotypes of a Jew with thirty pieces
of silver, Asiatic Red Army soldiers with
booty, and a sailor symbolising the
A Year
Proletariat
Dictatorship
by Alexander Apsit