Krasnaia gvardiia (The Red Guard) Artist: Unknown
Printer: 15-ia litografiia "Mospoligraf" (Moscow, active 20th century)
Publisher: Khudozhestvennoe izdatel'skoe aktsionernoe obshchestvo AKhR

Medium

Color lithograph on cardboard

Dimensions

sheet: 21 1/4 × 28 9/16 in. (54 × 72.5 cm)

Credit Line

The Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, Russian Poster Collection, curated with Kevin Begos

Accession Number

2018.136.13

Culture
Period

20th century

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

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

Object/Work type

didactic art, lithographs, military history, political art, posters, propaganda

Inscriptions

top center: \r\n"Armed workers constituted the embryo of a new army." Lenin\r\n"Without armed defense of the socialist republic we would not be able to exist." Lenin\r\nThe All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) - leader and organizer of the armed forces of October\r\nUnder the authority of the Soviets\r\nThe Sailors of the "Aurora"\r\n\r\nleft side: \r\nFrom the fields of the imperialist war - towards homes. Enough fighting for capitalists! \r\nThe workers of Donbass - to the Red Guard. \r\nOctober days in Moscow\r\n\r\ncenter: \r\nThe storming of the Winter Palace on October 25th, 1917\r\nOctober in the countryside\r\nSmolny, where the Military Revolutionary Committee positioned itself and led the uprising in Petrograd. \r\n\r\nright side: \r\nThe organization of combat brigades of workers (Red Guard) \r\nThe workers of the Urals - to the Red Guard\r\nThe defense of the approach routes to Petrograd\r\n\r\nleft scroll: \r\nReminder of the fighting work of the Red Guard. Around Petrograd, Kerensky and Krasnov. The battle in Moscow; in south Kaledin, Kornilov, Krasnov. \r\nright scroll: \r\nReminder of the fighting work of the Red Guard. The struggle for Ukraine - Petliurists, Haidamaks, Germans. The Far East - Semenovtsi. \r\n\r\nbottom center: Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AXPP or AkhR)

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