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[Lenin speaking to crowd in city square, May 5, 1920] – Vintage Wall Art

[Lenin speaking to crowd in city square, May 5, 1920] — historic print
[Lenin speaking to crowd in city square, May 5, 1920]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Lenin addressing a crowd in a city square is the scene here, shown in a reproduction of a painting. The title dates it to May 5, 1920, but the catalog note carries a question mark, so the date should be treated as provisional. By 1920 Lenin was the central public face of the Bolshevik government, which was fighting the Russian Civil War and trying to rebuild a shattered economy. Open-air rallies like this one were a standard way the regime addressed workers and soldiers. The record does not name the painter, so the picture is best read as an artist's image of a familiar political ritual rather than a record of one particular speech.

Medium1 item.
Notes[1920?]
SubjectsRepr. of painting. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Russia--History; PI; Shelf. Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 1870-1924--Public appearances.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,229 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130594

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