When the Russian Revolution first stroke out in February 1917, it wasn't really surprising or something to talk about because the Russians along predicted it and felt it was going to happen. Thus,explorations were sent seeking for outer and most reaching help. However, it only needed two months to turn Russia upside down and put it in a rapid change as well as the old policy and regime.
Unfortunately, in 1894, the strong leader that had everything under control, Alexander the third died, leaving behind the mild-mannered, unprepared Nicholas the second.
Nicholas the second couldn't really get a grip of the Russian Empire as he was more into superficial administrations rather than into serious policy and governmental issues. With a man lacking skills and abilities like him, it was kind of impossible to have what Russia needed despite his wife's encouragements and calls that he should be Autocratic. In terms of the populations' rights they didn't even exist with Nicholas the second which was the contrast of Alexander the third.
During Alexander the third's time and period, the peasant slaves were freed and got their freedom after he emancipated them in 1861. Not only that but also gave them rights to share and have their properties of lands which actually reached the half of the overall. However, the peasants weren't happy with that or satisfied they believed that by law they should own all the land which then led to peasant revolution in 1905 and 1917.
Russia's bad condition of social and economic issues led to building revolutionary organization called "populism" that called for populists' rights and peasents' rights. This later led to main revolutionary parties that played the rule in 1917, the Bolsheviks, that represented the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs), and the Mensheviks, that represented the Social Democrats (SDs).
The Bolsheviks are basically members or communists of a faction, that is called the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, which is (RSDLP) as an abbreviation. And they were led by Vladimir Lenin under a purpose of taking control of Russia and its government after they constructed a rebellion to do so. Apparently they were against the king, Nicholas the second, and his policy and monarchy and they were afraid that he could become a symbol of counterrevolution, therefore, they executed him.
Their party was divided into right, center and left wings in 1917.
The Bolsheviks were trying to maintain and sustain their political parties, and at the same time their techniques to change the system of the old government and start a new one and Lenin made sure that happened. A new government finally was formed named " Sovnarkom"
Vladimir Lenin
the leader of the bolsheviks
Regarding the Bolshevik political posters, the civil war years witnessed a dramatic change in terms of development of the soviet posters. As a reporter once wrote to Vestnik agitatsii I propagandy, who agrees with what Sosnovsky was saying that the posters were bad, dull and aren't worth ink, efforts or even papers. It's not contest that they were missing, it's more like the drawing skills themselves and the weak text. They didn’t depict or weren't sending what they were aiming for, especially comparing to recent soviet posters. And most of the posters were either colorless or highly colored. The reporter suggested the posters should just talk and stand up for themselves and send the clear message and be understandable without relying on what the text is saying. As for the text itself, it should be simple and easily memorisable. Some artists started abandoning and rejecting political posters for different point of views, such as: Dmitri Moor, Adolf Strakhov and Viktor Koretsky. Some think the political poster was superseded by monumental art and that artists started lacking creativity and sense of purity, some think it was completely expired.
This is the cover page of the Bolshevik poster
called (to horse, proletarian ! by A. Apsit) 1919
The Bolsheviks, in control after the 1917 Revolution, formed the Red Army, led by Leon Trotsky, and recruited soldiers...
Bolshevik propaganda poster 1920. ( week of the peasant)
(From N. I. Baburina, ed., The Soviet Political Poster, 1917-1980, from the USSR Lenin Library Collection [Harmondsworth:Penguin, 1985], plate 18.)
Adolf Strakhov, 8 marta (8th of march day of the Liberation of Women) (plate 6.3)
Some great artist, Gustav Klutsis, dealt with photomontage and actually believed that this kind of art somehow played a rule or even was the reason for superseding all sort of other arts like representational arts. He was best known for his ability of dealing with juxtaposition, which is putting things or images that are different together, especially in order to compare them.And that was obvious in his poster "the first Five Year Plan". A very noticeable incident happened after Hitler's invasion in the Second World War, June 1941, which was inspiring for some of the artists of the civil war year that were alive and witnessed the invasion. They together with their young partners persisted their efforts, only after a week of the invasion, five posters were already produced other than the fifty that were being prepared. There's a group of very famous artists that emerged after the Second World War called "Kukryniksy". The group consists of three artists that worked together from the late 1920s. The three were: Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov and Nikolai Sokolov.
Unfortunately, in 1894, the strong leader that had everything under control, Alexander the third died, leaving behind the mild-mannered, unprepared Nicholas the second.
Nicholas the second couldn't really get a grip of the Russian Empire as he was more into superficial administrations rather than into serious policy and governmental issues. With a man lacking skills and abilities like him, it was kind of impossible to have what Russia needed despite his wife's encouragements and calls that he should be Autocratic. In terms of the populations' rights they didn't even exist with Nicholas the second which was the contrast of Alexander the third.
During Alexander the third's time and period, the peasant slaves were freed and got their freedom after he emancipated them in 1861. Not only that but also gave them rights to share and have their properties of lands which actually reached the half of the overall. However, the peasants weren't happy with that or satisfied they believed that by law they should own all the land which then led to peasant revolution in 1905 and 1917.
Russia's bad condition of social and economic issues led to building revolutionary organization called "populism" that called for populists' rights and peasents' rights. This later led to main revolutionary parties that played the rule in 1917, the Bolsheviks, that represented the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs), and the Mensheviks, that represented the Social Democrats (SDs).
The Bolsheviks are basically members or communists of a faction, that is called the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, which is (RSDLP) as an abbreviation. And they were led by Vladimir Lenin under a purpose of taking control of Russia and its government after they constructed a rebellion to do so. Apparently they were against the king, Nicholas the second, and his policy and monarchy and they were afraid that he could become a symbol of counterrevolution, therefore, they executed him.
Their party was divided into right, center and left wings in 1917.
The Bolsheviks were trying to maintain and sustain their political parties, and at the same time their techniques to change the system of the old government and start a new one and Lenin made sure that happened. A new government finally was formed named " Sovnarkom"
Vladimir Lenin
the leader of the bolsheviks
Regarding the Bolshevik political posters, the civil war years witnessed a dramatic change in terms of development of the soviet posters. As a reporter once wrote to Vestnik agitatsii I propagandy, who agrees with what Sosnovsky was saying that the posters were bad, dull and aren't worth ink, efforts or even papers. It's not contest that they were missing, it's more like the drawing skills themselves and the weak text. They didn’t depict or weren't sending what they were aiming for, especially comparing to recent soviet posters. And most of the posters were either colorless or highly colored. The reporter suggested the posters should just talk and stand up for themselves and send the clear message and be understandable without relying on what the text is saying. As for the text itself, it should be simple and easily memorisable. Some artists started abandoning and rejecting political posters for different point of views, such as: Dmitri Moor, Adolf Strakhov and Viktor Koretsky. Some think the political poster was superseded by monumental art and that artists started lacking creativity and sense of purity, some think it was completely expired.
This is the cover page of the Bolshevik poster
called (to horse, proletarian ! by A. Apsit) 1919
The Bolsheviks, in control after the 1917 Revolution, formed the Red Army, led by Leon Trotsky, and recruited soldiers...
Bolshevik propaganda poster 1920. ( week of the peasant)(From N. I. Baburina, ed., The Soviet Political Poster, 1917-1980, from the USSR Lenin Library Collection [Harmondsworth:Penguin, 1985], plate 18.)
Adolf Strakhov, 8 marta (8th of march day of the Liberation of Women) (plate 6.3)
Some great artist, Gustav Klutsis, dealt with photomontage and actually believed that this kind of art somehow played a rule or even was the reason for superseding all sort of other arts like representational arts. He was best known for his ability of dealing with juxtaposition, which is putting things or images that are different together, especially in order to compare them.And that was obvious in his poster "the first Five Year Plan". A very noticeable incident happened after Hitler's invasion in the Second World War, June 1941, which was inspiring for some of the artists of the civil war year that were alive and witnessed the invasion. They together with their young partners persisted their efforts, only after a week of the invasion, five posters were already produced other than the fifty that were being prepared. There's a group of very famous artists that emerged after the Second World War called "Kukryniksy". The group consists of three artists that worked together from the late 1920s. The three were: Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov and Nikolai Sokolov.
D.S, Moor, ( How have you Helped the Front?) 1941
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