Long Live the Vanguard of the Revolution - the Red Fleet
Long Live the Vanguard of the Revolution - the Red Fleet, Vladimir Kozlinsky, 1920
During the February Revolution, the sailors of the Kronstadt Naval Base joined the revolution and executed their officers, thus gaining a reputation as dedicated revolutionaries. After the October Revolution, the sailors allied with the Bolsheviks. They would remain supporters of the Bolsheviks until 1921.
In March 1921, the sailors, soldiers and civilians at the Naval Base put forward a fifteen point plan aimed at: reducing Bolshevik control of the state and the soviets, economic freedom for peasants and workers, freedom of speech and assembly, and fair shares in food distribution.
The uprising was brutally suppressed by Trotsky's Red Army, amid claims that the Naval Base was a dangerous mutiny, in league with White counter revolutionaries.
The central character in the design was used in our poster commemorating the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921.
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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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