Bas-relief of Marx, Engels, Lenin & Stalin – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Bas-relief of Marx, Engels, Lenin & Stalin
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Few images in Soviet visual culture grouped these four men as neatly as this bas-relief, which places Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels beside Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin in one carved panel. The record dates it to 1940 and describes it as a projection transparency, a glass lantern slide made for projection before an audience. By then, Stalin's image was regularly shown alongside Lenin's, and the four were presented as a single line of revolutionary thought. The date and maker come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 1940 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Projection transparency by Diafoto, Moscow. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,177 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106450 |
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