The Soviet Union was the first to launch a satellite, Sputnik 1, and a human into space, Yuri Gagarin. With Apollo 11, the U.S. landed the first humans on the moon in 1969.

Prohibition, Soviet style: Propaganda posters from the 1980s. By Liesl Bradner . April 28, 2017 6 AM PT . ... But in 1985, the Soviet Union’s newly appointed general secretary, ...

Nearly a century after the Revolution, Prestel has published a collection of 23 pull-out propaganda posters from the Soviet Union, dating from 1917, all the way to 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev’s ...

This fall the Museum of Art is pleased to present Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars. Svetlana and Eric Silverman, ’85, P’19 This exhibition explores the ...

It was an issue he also addressed in a presentation to Bowdoin faculty colleagues in the fall semester, titled “Imagining the Future in Soviet Propaganda Posters: Metaphors of Time as Space.” “After ...

What became the Soviet Union witnessed a period of rare cultural ferment that lasted for a dozen years or so, until crushed by Stalin’s attacks on “formalism” and elevation of Socialist Realism.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, artists throughout the Soviet Union designed propaganda posters to warn the public of the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption. With striking, colorful ...

‘Red and Black: Revolution in Soviet Propaganda Graphics’ (5 April – 5 August) is an installation of 20 rare books, periodicals and book and portfolio plates, while ‘Construction Revolution: Soviet ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will soon display recently rediscovered prints from the TASS Window Poster Studio, a Soviet group that made anti-Nazi propaganda during World War II.

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The Soviet Union was known for its intense propaganda art. Messages varied from inspiring photos of space travel to heavy-handed warnings to potential spies. Retronaut collected and translated a ...