CLASSIC SOVIET COLD WAR PROPAGANDA POSTER. Comprising a 1988 Leninist propaganda poster depicting a young Lenin with a proud student in the foreground, text reading, "Live by Lenin's Ideas and Grow Up as a Communist, To Bring New Glory to the Country!" In 1988, as the USSR was experiencing political reform, economic crisis, rising nationalism, and natural disasters, posters like these would have been an effort to keep the Communist Party strong by recruiting young people. Artist V. Sachov, 1988. Poster size 26.5 x 18.5 inches (67.3 x 47.0cm), overall including attractive exhibition frame glazed with plexiglass, 29.25 x 21 inches (74.3 x 53.3cm). Ironically, only a mere three years after this poster was printed, the Soviet Union collapsed.

Provenance:
The Gary Hollingsworth lifetime collection

Exhibited:
Darker Shades of Red: Soviet Propaganda Art from the Cold War. St. Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, California, February-March 2018; Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, Massachusetts, June-August 2014; Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Winter Park, Florida, September 2011-January 2012; Chung Chan Art Gallery at St. John's University, Queens, New York, September-November 2006; Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, September-November 2004; Springfield Art Association, Springfield, Illinois, February-April 2003; Thompson Gallery at San José State University, San Jose, California, October-November 2001; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, February-April 2001; Durham Western Heritage Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, February-April 1999; Gallery at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, August-September 1998.

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