Vladimir and Gyorgy Stenberg
In
this masterful poster of 1926 by the Stenberg brothers done in the 'agitational'
advertising style of the NEP period, a phalanx of workers, soldiers and
businessmen advance in a powerful diagonal, reading the current issue of New
World.
New World (Novy Mir) magazine was the prime literary journal of the Soviet
regime. It later became the organ of the Union of Soviet Writers and during the
liberalization under Khrushchev published Solzhenitsyn's first short novel.
Founded in 1925, it featured stories by the greatest approved writers of the
day, including Maxim Gorky, Alexei Tolstoy, and Mikhail Sholokhov. It also
contained articles of general interest on art, politics and science as well as
poems and reviews. This
poster belongs to the period of the New Economic Plan (NEP), when some forms of
capitalism were briefly restored in the USSR. In 1921, faced with universal
economic collapse, Lenin retreated from his attempt to turn Russia overnight
into a communist society and allowed some forms of private enterprise to
function.
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