Editor: Lieven Soete
Update: 03-03-2003
drawings-construct1926.html
Soviet Constructivistic propaganda
1920 > 1929

Source: «The Mind and Face of Bolshevism», René Füllöp-Miller, London 1926 
Scans made by Lieven Soete [Brussels, Belgium], March 2003.
 

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Russia, 192(?) | Drawing by Krinski [1890-1971] 
A constructivist symbolic drawing of the Russian village between the old and the new age. 
1. Mechanized agriculture and the up-to-date village. 
2. "Komsomol" (anti-religious propaganda) and the raising of devils. 
3. Old village room. 
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 1926 | Drawing by Krinski [1890-1971] 
Constructivist-Symbolic representation: "The new Epoch". In the top left-hand corner the old "nichevo" Russia is symbolically struck out; below is the new Russia of mechanized activism (the "Time League", etc.). Below that is present-day Moscow: the old idyllic house with its dovecot cheek by jowl with the sky scraper. On the right, are the views of the old orthodox churches transformed to suit modern needs; church towers as antennae. In the interior af a former church is an engineering shop.
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | The «Mechanized Toiler» 
Constructivistic-symbolical drawing by Krinski [1890-1971] 
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | The mechanized individual is reduced to a mere component part in the mass which has become the machine ¬ Constructivistic-symbolical drawing by Krinski [1890-1971] 
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | Drawing by Krinski [1890-1971] 
Constructivistic-symbolic representation of communist «systematized» trade and industry contrasted with the old Russia. The parts in black show the rationalized organization of trade and industry under Soviet rule, while the pen drawings are intended to represent the still existing old Russia, with its hunger and misery, its beggars, gambing dens, and demi-mondaines. 
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 1925?) | Drawing by Krinski [1890-1971] 
A temple of the machine-worshippers ¬ A Byzantic dome. Instead of angels, figures of communist agitators have been placed in the spandrels; for their heads wheels have been substituted, which are set in motion from the altar by means of driving belts. In the foreground the mechanized community. 
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | Drawing by Krinski [1890-1971] 
Appeal for the scientific organization of labour. 
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | «Victory is still ahead us» | Drawing by Gastev
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | Drawing by Gastev
«Let us take the storm of the revolution in Soviet Russia, unite it to the pulse of American life, and do our work like a chronometer!» 
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | Drawing by V. Tatlin
Project for the office (and monument) for the third [communist] Internationale: the «Komintern».
 
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | Drawing by M. Dobnyinski
Project for a communist mass festival, dedicated to the "visible god" the Machine 
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | Plan for a monument to the Communist Revolution: "The Colossus of Iron”
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | Plan for a Revolutionary Monument in Tomsk
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 1926 | Drawing by Deni [Denissov Victor 1892-1946]
Lenin [1870-1924] addresses the crowd from the factory chimneys
 
 
 
 




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Russia 1924 | Lenin's [1870-1924] Funeral (Woodcut)
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 1924 | Lenin's [1870-1924] Lying-in-state (Woodcut)
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 1926 | The Storming of the Kremlin in October 1917- Drawing by Krinski [1890-1971] 
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 1920 | Portrait of Maxim Gorki [1868-1936] by Iuri Annenkov [1889-1974]
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | NEP-Economics
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | Propaganda Card ¬ "Self-government for Children"
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 192(?) | A Panel by Nathan Altmann [1889-1970]
used as a decoration in the Moscow October Festival 
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 1921 | Abram Efros, the bolshevik art critic ¬ Portrait by Iuri Annenkov [1889-1974]
 
 
 
 




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Russia, 1920 | Nikolai Evreinov, the creator of "theatricalised Life" ¬ Portrait by Iuri Annenkov [1889-1974]