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Stalin poster of the week 128 (SPotW128)

21/4/2019

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Iraklii Toidze compendium, images of Stalin

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"... the party is unbeatable if it knows where to go and is not afraid of the difficulties" I.V. Stalin (in Armenian - versions exist in several languages of the USSR), 1940
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Forward, to new victories of socialist construction! (Вперед, к новым победам социалистического строительства!), 1946
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Long life and prosperity to our motherland! I. Stalin (Пусть здравствует и процветает наша Родина! И. Сталин), 1947 (from Stalin's Address to the Nation September 2, 1945, published in Pravda September 3, 1945)
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Long live the best friend of miners, great Stalin! (Да здравствует лучший друг шахтеров, великий Сталин), 1949
As Iraklii Toidze is my favourite of the Stalinist poster artists, and this blog will draw to a close soon, I have decided to break with tradition and include several Toidze posters in a single edition.


Iraklii Moiseevich Toidze was born on March 14 (27) in 1902 in Tbilisi (Tiflis), Georgia. Son of the famous artist and architect Moiseia Toidze, Iraklii studied with his father and graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts in 1930.


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Iraklii Moiseevich Toidze (1902-1985)

Toidze was a founding member of RevMas (the Tiflis branch of AKhR) with his father from 1928 and its successor SaRMa (Georgian Association of Revolutionary Artists) from 1931.


Toidze is well-known for having produced some of the most iconic and emotive poster images of the Great Patriotic War.


Important exhibitions included:
Fifteen Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Moscow 1933
Twenty Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Moscow 1938
Industry of Socialism, Moscow 1939
All-Union Art Exhibition, Moscow 1946, 47, 49, 50, 55.


Toidze was the recipient of several Stalin Prizes:
1941 Painting (1st class) - illustration of the poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" by Shota Rustaveli  (1937)
1948 Painting (1st class) - for "Speech I. Stalin at the solemn meeting devoted to the 24th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution "and a portrait I. Stalin
1949 Painting (2nd class) - illustrations for the book "Anthology of Georgian poetry"
1951 Graphics (3rd class) - for a series of illustrations for the book "History of Georgia"


Toidze was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.



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Stalin poster of the week 127 (SPotW127)

14/4/2019

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B. Lebeșev, Opera "Khoroglu", 1939

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B. Lebeșev, Opera "Khoroglu", 1939

This Azerbaijani poster by graphic artist B. Lebesev depicts a performance of the opera Khoroglu at the Azerbaijani State Opera and Ballet Theatre.


Based on episodes from the Epic of Koroghlu, the five-act opera premiered on April 30, 1937 and is still frequently performed today. The opera premiered in Moscow in 1938, although was only performed in full in Russian in 1943.


Considered to be composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov's finest work, Khoroglu won him a USSR State Prize in 1941.


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At first glance, this appears to be the usual fare in Lenin-Stalin banners, but here the banner artfully doubles as a theatre curtain

In this poster, the ubiquitous red banner of Lenin-Stalin has morphed into a theatre curtain. A lifelike sketch of Stalin in colour sits before a moon-like bas-relief of Lenin, and both look to the right - the direction of the future.


This forward-looking symbolism is made explicit in the poster caption in Azerbaijani: Opera "Khoroglu" - a new stage in the development of the Azerbaijani opera.


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A Khan-defying Khoroglu takes centre stage

On the stage, in 16th-century costume, is Khoroglu himself. Avenging the unjust blinding of his father and the terrible conditions in which the people live, Khoroglu gathers an army of rebels and ultimately overthrows the despotic Hassan Khan.


The bottom of the poster features a band of beautiful Azerbaijani folk design. The poster was published in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1939.

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Stalin poster of the week 126 (SPotW126)

7/4/2019

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Mikhail Reikh, For Communism!..., 1948

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Mikhail Reikh (Михаил Вольдемарович Рейх), For Communism!... (За коммунизм!...), 1948


A 1948 Uzbek poster by Mikhail Reikh celebrates communist post-war abundance and depicts Stalin as the sun.

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Stalin is like the life-giving sun

The poster is dominated by a bust of Stalin emblazoned across a red sky. Stalin appears like the rising sun, illuminating the Uzbek people below who look to the sky, arms outstretched to offer thanks to the source of fertility and abundance.


In their arms, the Uzbek people hold offerings of bouquets of cotton. Ears of wheat and blossoming roses surround the poster caption.


"For communism! So youth exclaims, and this cry is heard in the distance. Youth swears allegiance, Comrade Stalin is the sun of all the earth!"


The caption appears in both Uzbek and Russian and names Stalin as the sun. It is taken from a letter signed by 26,474,646 Komsomol and youth on 3 November 1947.

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Thanks to Stalin, Uzbekistan has an abundance of cotton

The full text of the poem in the letter reads:

In the newly illuminated country of the Soviets,
What name is given to the sun?
With excitement, with gratitude, with love -
It is Comrade Stalin!, say youth.

For our future, for science,
For the sun, for a free sky!
You held out your hand to youth
And led us into the future!

For communism! So youth exclaims.
And this cry is heard in the distance.
Youth swears allegiance,
Comrade Stalin is the sun of all the earth
Long live our father, beloved COMRADE STALIN!


Mikhail Reikh was born in 1904 (in Turkmenistan?). Arriving in Uzbekistan in 1924, he had a long and successful career as a painter, cartoonist, illustrator and graphic artist. He died in Moscow in 1966.
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BLOG ARCHIVE - STALIN POSTER OF THE WEEK
SPotW1 Toidze 1947
SPotW2 Klutsis 1930
SPotW3 Chronicle 1938
SPotW4 Podobedov 1940
SPotW5
Deni 1930
SPotW6 Klutsis 1933
SPotW7 Efimov 1933
SPotW8 Govorkov 1936
SPotW9 Koretskii 1949
SPotW10
Foreign policy 1940
SPotW11 Pravdin 1950
SPotW12 Karpovskii 1948
SPotW13 Mizin 1934
SPotW14 Klutsis 1931
SPotW15
Koretskii 1943
SPotW16 I.V. Stalin 1930
SPotW17 Volkova/Pinus 1938
SPotW18 Toidze 1941
SPotW19 Stalin's affection 1949
SPotW20 Berezovskii 1947


SPotW21 50 Years 1929
SPotW22 Petrov 1948
SPotW23 Arakelov 1939
SPotW24 Ivanov 1952
SPotW25 Solomyanii 1952


SPotW26 Belopol'skii 1952
SPotW27 Kaidalov 1940
SPotW28 Mytnikov 1950
SPotW29 Yang 1938
SPotW30 Golub' 1950


SPotW31 Vorontsov 1951
SPotW32 Belopol'skii, 1951
SPotW33 Deni 1931
SPotW34 Madorskii 1938
SPotW35 Leader, teacher, friend 1941


SPotW36 Al'menov 1951
SPotW37 Deni 1937
SPotW38 Cheprakov 1941
SPotW39 Enemy, 1941
SPotW40 Zotov, 1934

SPotW41 Grinets 1937
SPotW42 Vatolina 1939
SPot
W43  Zhukov 1940
SPotW44 Fedotov 1943
SPotW45 Golub' 1949

SPotW46 Vatolina 1950
SPotW47 Solov'ev 1950
SPotW48 Mel'nikova 1951
SPotW49 Kokorekin 1951
SPotW50 Ivanov El'tsufen 1952

SPotW51 Unknown 1952
SPotW52 Klutsis 1932
SPotW53 Printing 1950
SPotW54 Lukhtein 1951
SPotW55 Toidze 1946

SPotW56 Litvinov 1949
SPotW57 Serov 1942
SPotW58 Pinchuk 1943
SPotW59 Petrov 1952
SPotW60 Podobedov 1939

SPotW61 Babitskii 1944
SPotW62 Pen Varlen 1942
SPotW63 Bayuskin 1942
SPotW64 Belopol'skii 1950
SPotW65 Belopol'skii 1952

SPotW 81 Koretskii 1950
SPotW 82 Pravdin 1950
SPotW83 Vatolina 1938
SPotW 84 Deni 1938
SPotW85 
Koretskii 1945


SPotW66 Dlugach 1933
SPotW67 Zhitomirskii 1942
SPotW68 Toidze 1949
SPotW69 Mikhailov 1937
SPotW70 Cheprakov 1939

SPotW 86 Kazantsev 1944
SPotW 87 Civil War 1938

SPotW 88 Kun 1937
SPotW 89 Spirit 1941
SPotW 90 Ryvkin 1939

SPotW71 Deni 1935
SPotW72 Deni 1935
SPotW73 Defence 1938
SPotW74 Elkin 1939
SPotW75 Zarnitskii

SPotW 91 Moor 1938
SPotW 92 Ivanov 1948
SPotW 93 Govorkov 1951
SPotW 94 Denisov 1941
SPotW 95 Ledby 1942

SPotW76 Toidze 1943
SPotW77 Futerfas 1936
SPotW78 Mukhin 1945
SPotW79 Golub' 1948
SPotW80 Karpovskii 1948

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