Large early Soviet propaganda poster "People's Judgement", 1919, Moscow.
Size: 69 x 43 cm (27" x 17")
Printed on matte poster paper by the 17th State Printing House (formerly Kushnerev's Printing House), Moscow, 1919.
Artwork by D. Moor.
The poster features caricatures of a worker/peasant/soldier trio representing the young Power of the Soviets, tool-of-trade in hand, pushing
out their enemies as judgement for the enemies' crimes and transgressions.
Among the enemies, literally no one is spared. We need to remember that this is 1919, and the purge of the remaining intellectuals in the
Soviet Russia is still about 20 years into the future. So, "today", in 1919, the Soviet Power is judging the "classes": royalty, nobility,
clerics, industrialists, bankers, judiciary, law enforcement, the military, politicians, the list goes on and on, enveloping every stratum of
society which knew how to govern. Needless to say, the odious figure of Grigory (Grishka) Rasputin is there is person too, with a bottle of
vodka and a bloodied knife in his hands, surrounded by naked women.
Excellent condition! Apart from a crease along the middle of the poster which is still strong and does not require reinforcement, amazingly slight age toning of the paper and very minor wear along the edges, the poster doesn't show the 100+ years of its age at all!
Item# 43591
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