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Soviet CPSU Workers 1970s | Propaganda Poster
Soviet CPSU Workers 1970s | Propaganda Poster
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Flat white silhouettes of Soviet workers from every sector of the economy, steelworker, surveyor, nurse, technician, construction labourer, surround a central CPSU membership card booklet bearing a profile portrait of Lenin. The card's left page carries the slogan 'The Party is the mind, honour and conscience of our era'; the right reads 'Communist Party of the Soviet Union / Central Committee of the CPSU'. Behind the figures, a dense background of industrial vignettes, cranes, gears, grain fields, power lines, reinforces the message of coordinated national production. At the base, bold reversed-out Cyrillic reads: 'Rodina, Partiya, Vremya Zovet: Kommunisty, Vperyod!' (Motherland, Party, Time is Calling: Communists, Go Forward!). The palette is saturated cadmium red and forest green, with the cream of the card panel as the composition's anchor.
Produced under the auspices of the Central Committee of the CPSU (TsK KPSS) during the mid-to-late Brezhnev era, this design belongs to a well-documented strand of party-member mobilisation posters that placed the CPSU membership card at the visual centre as a symbol of collective obligation. The flat silhouette figure style updated the Socialist Realism vocabulary mandated by the CPSU from 1934, making the composition more graphically schematic while retaining the full weight of ideological address. The Soviet Visuals archive dates a version of this poster to 1984; the RISD Graphic Design and Illustration Archive holds a confirmed example in its Russian Posters collection.
Reproduced on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper using pigment-based archival inks. The bold flat palette and high-contrast silhouettes translate with particular clarity on a matte surface.
A considered choice for those who collect Soviet graphic design, study Cold War visual communication, or want a direct encounter with the poster art of Brezhnev-period Russia on the wall.
