Achievements of Socialist Construction USSR Soviet Union Political Propaganda Poster
- 1930
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28 x 40 inches ~ (71 x 101 cm)$4,250
- Linen backed
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself.
The price of this poster includes linen backing.
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Extremely rare Soviet photomontage Avant-Garde Constructivism propaganda poster celebrating industrial and infrastructure growth. with a focus on heavy Industry including metallurgical plants, oil derricks, surveyors, and industrial machinery all symbolizing rapid modernization under Lenin's electrification plan (GOELRO) and the first Five Year Plan launched on October 1, 1928, covering the planning period from 1929 to 1933.
The text at left describes:
The Basis of Industrialization is Heavy Industry
We are Successfully Fulfilling the Greatest Electrificatuion Plan - The Plan of Ilyich Lenin for the USSR!
With a Stalin quote at the bottom, "...We are going full steam ahead along the path of industrialization to socialism, leaving behind our centuries-old, 'old-Russian' backwardness. We are becoming a country of metal, a country of automobilization, a country of tractorization"
