Poster - Battleship Potemkin Film Poster version 1
БРОНЕНСЕЦ ПОТЕМКИН 1905 - Battleship Potemkin 1905 film poster by Alexander Rodchenko, 1925.
The 1925 film commemorates the mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin in June of 1905 and is considered to be a masterpiece. This is just one of several posters used in advertising the film.
In 1917, after three years of devastating war, food shortages and government corruption, the workers and peasants of Russia rose up to overthrow the ruling elite and attempted to create the world’s first communist society under the slogan “All Power to the Soviets”. Throughout the year there were riots, mutinies and strikes, influenced by and involving Mensheviks, Anarchists, Social Revolutionaries and Bolsheviks.
By October, the Bolsheviks, who promised to end Russia’s involvement in the war, were able to overthrow the provisional government, which had been established after the abdication of the Tsar in February. As the Bolsheviks centralised power and tightened their control over the new state, civil war broke out across Russia as monarchists and liberals (known as the Whites), supported by Western capitalist democracies, fought back against the Bolsheviks. At the same time, various non-Russian independence movements, anarchists and anti-Bolshevik socialist parties rebelled against Bolshevik imposed terror.
By 1923 the Bolsheviks had defeated the White Army and suppressed internal dissent. The Civil War concluded with a Bolshevik victory. Before the Revolution and throughout the period of the existence of the Soviet Union, visual propaganda was considered a significant means to inform, educate and motivate people.
This is a digitally cleaned up print. It is an A3 size (approx. 11.7" x 16.5") printed on good quality 170gm poster paper by the Radical Poster Collective, UK
The Radical Poster Collective is dedicated to making good quality classic radical posters available at an affordable price. Posters are either digitally cleaned up to remove tears, stains, etc., or completely recreated to be as close as possible to the original.
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