Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives, Lenin Will Live!
ЛЕНИН - ЖИЛ, ЛЕНИН - ЖИВ, ЛЕНИН - БУДЕТ ЖИТЬ! - Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives, Lenin Will Live!
By Victor Ivanov, with words by Soviet Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky
Victor Semonovich Ivanov was born in 1909. He attended Moscow Secondary Professional Art School from 1926 to 1929 and worked for the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) agency during the Second World War where he created several posters, including one in 1942 based on the quote from Stalin: "Comrades Red Army Soldiers and Red Navy Sailors, Commanders and Political Operators, Men and Women Partisans! The whole world is looking at you as a force able to totally destroy the pillaging hordes of the German aggressor - J. Stalin"
He received many medals for his wartime poster designs, including The Stalin Prize in 1946 and 1949, and was elected a Member of the USSR Academy of Arts from 1964.
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In 1917, after three years of devastating war, food shortages and government corruption, the workers and peasants of Russia rose up to overthrow the ruling elite and attempted to create the world’s first communist society under the slogan “All Power to the Soviets”.
Throughout the year there were riots, mutinies and strikes, influenced by and involving Mensheviks, Anarchists, Social Revolutionaries and Bolsheviks.
By October, the Bolsheviks, who promised to end Russia’s involvement in the war, were able to overthrow the provisional government, which had been established after the abdication of the Tsar in February.
As the Bolsheviks centralised power and tightened their control over the new state, civil war broke out across Russia as monarchists and liberals (known as the Whites), supported by Western capitalist democracies, fought back against the Bolsheviks.
At the same time, various non-Russian independence movements, anarchists and anti-Bolshevik socialist parties rebelled against Bolshevik imposed terror.
By 1923 the Bolsheviks had defeated the White Army and suppressed internal dissent. The Civil War concluded with a Bolshevik victory.
Before the Revolution and throughout the period of the existence of the Soviet Union, visual propaganda was considered a significant means to inform, educate and motivate people.
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