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The past decade has seen a surge in interest in Soviet World War II graphics, as evidenced by the 2011 exhibit “Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945” at the ...
The posters cover the period from the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 to Victory in May 1945. The artists vividly belittled the enemy, challenged citizens to fight till the last drop ...
During World War II, Soviet forces trained dogs to carry explosives under Nazi tanks—a desperate attempt to halt Germany’s ...
Numerous posters were dedicated to International Women’s Day on March 8. The women of Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) had staged a mass demonstration on this day in 1917.
Pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine are turning to Soviet World War II posters to spread their message of fighting against Ukrainian "fascists" in a part of the world that was flattened by Nazi troops.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will soon display recently rediscovered prints from the TASS Window Poster Studio, a Soviet group that made anti-Nazi propaganda during World War II.
V. Grebnev / TASS The initial period of World War II for the USSR was a real catastrophe for the Red Army’s tanks. Nevertheless, after having overcome the first blow, the Soviet Union was able ...
The horrors and heroism of World War II are given a fresh look in an Art Institute of Chicago exhibition of rediscovered Soviet propaganda posters that depict Hitler as bloodthirsty, anxious and ...
During WWII, Russians' personal opinion and creativity was silenced and forbidden, but it seems artists during the era found a way to not only continue to create art, but to put their skills to ...
Pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine are turning to Soviet World War II posters to spread their message of fighting against Ukrainian "fascists" in a part of the world that was flattened by Nazi troops.