Artist: Balogh, Istvan. 1965. cca. 70 x 50 cm. Vintage poster. Paper, offset. Impressive poster by Istvan Balogh for the national holiday of 7th of November. This date was an official national holiday in the socialist Hungary, as the anniversary of the Russian revolution. This poster shows the Aurora battleship, where the first riots broke out among the sailors. Regardless of the political content, Balogh created a very expressive image. 7 November is the anniversary of the October Revolution, was the official national day of the Soviet Union from 1918 onward and still is a public holiday in Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and the breakaway territory of Transnistria. Between 1945 and 1989 it was also a national holiday in the Socialist Hungary. The October revolution of 1917 also marks the inception of the first communist government in Russia, and thus the first large-scale socialist state in world history. After this Russia became the Russian SFSR and later part of the USSR, which dissolved in late 1991. The October Revolution took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 25 October 1917 (by the Julian or Old Style calendar, which corresponds to 7 November 1917 in the Gregorian or New Style calendar).

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