Propaganda Poster Civil War Kolchak Lenin Letter ROSTA Soviet Russia

Rare original vintage issue of a ROSTA (Russian Telegraph Agency) poster with Lenin's letter to women and peasants rallying for victory over General Kolchak, signed N Lenin. Newspaper text with images. Fair condition, folded, minor loss on folds and margins. Rosta windows or satirical Rosta windows were stencil-replicated propaganda posters created by artists and poets within the Rosta system, under the supervision of the Chief Committee of Political Education during 1919-21. Inheriting the Russian design traditions of lubok and rayok, the main topics were current political events. They were usually displayed in windows, hence the name. The first Rosta window was created in Moscow by Mikhail Cheremnykh (1890-1962). He was soon joined by Vladimir Mayakovsky, a popular and prolific author, Dmitry Moor (1883-1946), Amshey Nurenberg (1887-1979), Alexander Rodchenko, Mikhail Volpin and others. Similar projects were performed in other Soviet cities. Cheremnykh and Mayakovsky, for example, produced a poster in 1921 satirising a French delegation led by Joseph Noulens. The design featured graphical simplicity suitable for viewing from distance and often used lubok-styled sequences of pictures according to some plot, similar to modern comics. The posters were not printed but rather painted with cut-out stencils made from cardboard. Once the required number of posters was painted, the stencils were sent to another city and put in circulation throughout the Soviet Union. During World War II, this approach was reproduced in Tass windows by Kukryniksy. Fair condition, origibal folds, tears and minor loss on folds and margins, paper frail. Year of printing: 1919, country of printing: Russia, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 67.5x54.