Verkhovyi sovet SSSR (Supreme Soviet of the USSR), no. 4 of 12 from the series Uchenie i delo Lenina bessmertno (The Teachings and Actions of Lenin Are Immortal)

1986

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Medium: Color offset lithograph
Dimensions: sheet: 18 7/8 × 13 in. (48 × 33 cm)
Credit Line: The Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, Russian Poster Collection, curated with Kevin Begos
Accession Number: 2018.136.677
Geography: Made in Moscow, Russia
Culture: Soviet, Moscow
Period: 20th century
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Allan Chasanoff Collection, New York, to 2018; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Object copyright

Not Assigned

Additional information

Object/Work type

didactic art, lithographs, political art, posters, propaganda

Subject

communism

Inscriptions

UR: \r\n"Soviet power has the path to socialism, contained within the working masses, and therefore it is right and therefore it is invincible." \r\nLenin\r\n\r\nAt bottom: \r\n"All the power in the USSR belongs to the people. The people exercises governing power through councils of people's deputies, which constitute the political foundation of the USSR."\r\n[from the Constitution of the Soviet Union]

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