The poster expresses the people’s support of Communism. The man in the poster holding the flag of communist government show his support to the Soviet party. The three leader of the communism is Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin who looked forward for the future in the flag. The influence of the man with the flag of communist influence the crowd at the bottom by the link of the man’s leg to the crowd and the size of the man show the powerful influence that the crowd receives. The eyes of the man looking down at the crowd show the caring for the citizen that they will receive under communism. The crowds also look at the same direction like Lenin, Engels, and Marx, which I believe is the brighter future that the three leaders have promise the crowd which is the citizen of the communism country that have different jobs, gender, and age. The banner that the crowd is holding show the support of communism by using red and the word that supports Communism. With this poster, people would want to support communism for the better and brighter future that the three leaders have promised. The poster emphasize the man holding the red flag and the face of the important leaders of Communism to show the influence that the people received, the choice of using less color to make red color shows up, and using less word which make the reader remember easier is the effective part of the poster.
All power to soviets! Peace to all nations! Land to peasants! Factories to workers! Lenin, holding the Pravda newspaper
The poster’s main idea was to point out the promise that Lenin have gave to the people. The word at the back of Lenin is the promise he made to the people which is to make soviet powerful, to have peace which at that time people want to get out of WWI, to give land to the peasant, and to make jobs for workers. These promise are all the popular wants of the Russian people at that time which to be able to gain these offers, people must support communism. At the hand of Lenin, he was holding the Pravda newspaper which is famous and gained a lot of support to the communist idea. Lenin holding the newspaper tightly showing the effort he will put in his promise which will come true which gave hopes to people around Russia to support communism not the provisional government at that time. The effective of the poster is the look of Lenin which has a reliable and the promises behind him emphasize the important of the offer that he is giving to the people.
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Capital: I will crush Soviet Russia in my fist!!! But... it only clenches its fist in impotent anger! 1920
The poster reflects the evil of capitalism. The image of a man wearing a hat represents the evil capitalism which has an ugly face and is trying to destroy Soviet Russia. The image worsens the belief of capitalism which many people at that time believe capitalism is evil. The image worsen the believe for the Russian people by making Russia a target of capitalism which make the people afraid because they are being the target and they need to protect themselves by being communist because in the right image show the protection of the communist from the capitalism by having many supports which fight against capitalism. This shows that people need to co-operate by joining communist to prevent capitalism in Russia. The use of cartoon is effective because they also attract children which also spread the idea more efficiently. The use of making Russia a target is effective since, when people are in target, they will try to protect themselves and with a solution shown in the poster, people will use the solution provide for them which is very effective
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What the October Revolution has given to working and peasant women 1920
The poster describes the situation after October revolution which has a woman as a main character in the poster. At the back of her, there is a bright sun and blue sky showing the brighter future after the revolution. In the hand of the woman, there is a hammer and on the floor there is a sickle showing the sign of communist influence. At the side of her, there is a library, a mensa, and worker club which shows the improvements and benefits after the revolution which was the education of people and a better living for people. She also wore good cloths which represent the wealth that the people get after the revolution. The poster using woman as the main character in the poster make woman plays more roles during that time. The poster makes woman have feel that they have more rights and opportunity to improve their live than before making them want to support the communist. The effectiveness of the poster is the uses of woman in the poster since it lure more women to become more interest in the poster. The colors of the poster are also effective since it makes the poster looks dreamy with vivid colors and it is attractive.
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Bread and friendship are our basis. The National Emblem is bound from the spikes. Bread and friendship are the most holy things for us. We are proud of it and it makes us strong.
Bread(food) and friendship within the country and to other country is the most wanted of the people in that time. By promising the people of what they desire is the best way to lure the people in for supporting the communist. The message of the poster that they are showing is that they are willing to make the people’s hope and desires come true by supporting them. As you can see, at the back of the picture, the symbol of the communism is over the world which they are trying to control over the world with the promise of bread and friendship. With the light spreading at the back of the bread and the soviet symbol showing how holy the promise is. The poster express the important of the people desire very much which is there effectiveness since people would become attracted to the poster and would even toughly support communism. The color of the poster is also effective since gold is the gold of richness, which makes the poster, looks important and worthy.
Conclusion
For my conclusion, Propaganda had shape many believe of Russian people. The communist government uses the attractive posters, containing untrue facts, to make sure that people are still giving them their supports. Government uses their bias facts to also spread their ideas to other countries. These posters made two different view points of communist which is to support or against. Government race with other artist to ensure their security of the people’s believes in communism. Even tough there is two different viewpoints about communism, both of them is effective in different countries and because it is not rare to find them, they are effective in different classes of people. Today commercial and advertise also use propaganda to persuade others to purchase their product
