Title:
Iconography of power : Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin / Victoria E. Bonnell.
Author:
Bonnell, Victoria E.
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997.
Call Number:
DK266.3 .B58 1997
Abstract:
This study of the Soviet political posters issued between 1918 and 1953, describes the archetypal images they featured, such as the worker, the peasant woman, the enemy and the leader. It analyzes these Bolshevik icons and explains how they defined the popular outlook in Soviet Russia.
Electronic Access:
ACLS Humanities E-Book http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.05220Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal051/96036252.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal041/96036252.html
ISBN:
9780520087125
9780520221536
Series:
Studies on the history of society and culture ; 27
Studies on the history of society and culture ; 27.
Physical Description:
xxii, 363 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Iconography of the worker in Soviet political art -- Representation of women in early Soviet posters -- Peasant women in political posters of the 1930s -- The leader's two bodies: iconography of the Vozhd' -- Bolshevik demonology in visual propaganda -- The apotheosis of Stalinist political art.
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