Russian poster, 1920

1920 1918-1939 "Russian poster, 1920" [T0630], 1920 This poster reads: "Comrade, work on the red way, and do not forget the Soviet rivers" This poster is part of a collection of posters, leaflets, photographs and ephemera collected by Margaret Bondfield during her trip to Russia...

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Institution:TUC - Trade Union Congress Library
Language:English
Published: 1920
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description 1920 1918-1939 "Russian poster, 1920" [T0630], 1920 This poster reads: "Comrade, work on the red way, and do not forget the Soviet rivers" This poster is part of a collection of posters, leaflets, photographs and ephemera collected by Margaret Bondfield during her trip to Russia in 1920 as part of a British Labour delegation. A diary of her trip was also deposited. The delegation comprised Ben Turner, Ethel Snowden, Tom Shaw and Robert Williams from the Labour Party; Margaret Bondfield, A. A. Purcell and H. Skinner from the TUC. The Joint secretaries to the delegation were Charles Roden Buxton and L. Haden Guest, R.C. Wallhead and Clifford Allen from the independent Labour Party accompanied the delegation. The delegation condemned foreign military intervention and the international trade blockade on Russia which was encouraging famine and disease and called for the Russian Government to be recognised by other states. The letters POCTA in the corner of the poster (trans. ROSTA) refers to the Russian Telegraph Agency, the state news agency in Soviet Russia. Such propaganda posters, or "ROSTA windows" as they became known, were the work of many influential Russian artists, such as Vladimir Mayakovsky and others.
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Russian poster, 1920
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