Viktor Semyonovich Ivanov (1909 to 1968), a Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts, won the USSR State Prize for poster art twice, in 1946 and 1949. He designed this poster for Izogiz, the Soviet state art publisher in Moscow, in the mid-1950s. This is a later edition.
On the poster
A gilded Lenin statue fills the right half of the sheet, arm extended in a forward-pointing gesture, against a flat cerulean blue ground. Bold white diagonal rays radiate from the upper right. At lower left, three lines of cadmium-red Cyrillic block capitals read "ПОБЕДА / КОММУНИЗМА / НЕИЗБЕЖНА" (The Victory of Communism Is Inevitable).
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.





