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Soviet Five Year Plan 1980 | Lenin 110th Propaganda Poster
Soviet Five Year Plan 1980 | Lenin 110th Propaganda Poster
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A navy-coated worker stands in low-angle perspective, one fist thrust upward, before a vast crimson banner bearing Lenin's profile. Flanking him, white steel lattice construction pylons rise into a flat sky-blue ground. Across the left panel, bold Cyrillic declares: 'Fulfil your personal five-year plan by the 110th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin.' Lenin was born on 22 April 1870: this poster belongs to the mass anniversary campaign of 1980, timed to align individual worker productivity with the closing year of the USSR's Tenth Five-Year Plan.
Produced in the Soviet Union circa 1980 under the late-Brezhnev poster programme, this is a standard-format agitation piece in the tradition of socialist realist graphic production. The composition draws directly on the visual conventions of Soviet political art: the solitary heroic worker rendered in monumental low-angle, the leader's image carried on cloth above him, construction infrastructure as the grammar of national progress. The four-colour offset lithographic palette, cadmium red, deep navy, sky blue, and white, is characteristic of Plakat-era output in this period. No artist attribution has been confirmed.
The 110th anniversary of Lenin's birth was marked across the Soviet Union with exhibitions, productions quotas, and a mass printing of anniversary posters. This design belongs to that documented campaign, confirmed by the anniversary slogan and the construction-site setting referencing Soviet industrial mobilisation rhetoric. It sits within the well-documented late-Soviet genre of 'personal obligation' propaganda, urging each worker to dedicate their individual five-year output to the Party's collective goals.
This reproduction is printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper, preserving the flat graphic intensity and the saturated red-navy contrast of the original Soviet design.
