My stroim kommunizm! – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of My stroim kommunizm!. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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My stroim kommunizm!
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Its Russian title, "My stroim kommunizm!" ("We are building Communism!"), states the poster's message outright. It was published in Moscow by Sovetskii Khudozhnik, a state art publisher that issued many propaganda posters during the Soviet period. Slogans like this one were common in Soviet visual culture, linking factory work, farming, and everyday life to the long-term goal of a communist society. The Communist Party's 1961 program had set a target of reaching communism within a generation, and posters repeated that promise through bold graphics and short, direct text. The Library of Congress holds this copy as a gift from collector Gary Yanker, who published a book on such material titled *Prop Art*.
| Created / published | 1968 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) |
| Genre | ca. 1985. hz / 861020." |
| Notes | Title summary: We are building Communism! Published: Moskva : Izd-vo Sov. khudozhnik." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Published in: Prop art / Gary Yanker. New York : Darien House |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,732 × 4,657 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221753 |
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