RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA POSTERS

Propaganda is a set of message that was used to influence the opinion or behavior of a large group of people. Propaganda provides some information in order to make the audience follow with the idea of the poster with the aim at affecting the emotionally more than affecting logic reasoning. The thing that you can learn by studying the poster is the history during the time that the propaganda was used, when you read the message you can know what it is like that time.

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This poster message is “Peace to the world. Lenin. We promise to the workers and to the peasants to do everything for peace - and we will do it,” said by V. I. Lenin. I can learn that this is a poster that Lenin used to gain support from the people for the Bolsheviks between February revolution and October revolution. The part of the poster that conveys the message is where they put the message below Lenin which is the leader of the Bolshevik. The thing that is particularly effective about the poster is where Lenin wrote peace in many language to make people in Russia where there are more than 100 language understand the meaning of this poster.

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The message of the poster is “Be on guard at all times it is a police officer.” This poster is trying to get people to be aware of police in town because the police will sometimes will arrest people who opposed the government. This poster conveys the message by writing the message on top of the police officer who just steps out of the car. The part of the poster is particularly effective is where the police wear full uniform and the car had the sign that say police.

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The message of the poster is “Our Fatherland is in danger: Crisis of economy, Confrontation, Criminality, Separatism. The Soviet flag is being torn apart….”This propaganda is trying to get people to rethink about their country in that time, which faces the crisis of economy, confrontation, criminality, separatism. It’s like the country is being torn apart. This poster conveys the message by putting the main message on the flag in the middle, than putting the different crisis in the country during that time on the four side of the flag. The part that is particularly effective about this poster is where the flag was torn, this mean all the crisis is putting Russia in danger.

After I read all the three propaganda, it tells me that Russia during that time is in the state of chaos where everything is unstable and they cannot find a good government to settle the chaos yet. The Russian people are all separated and that some people tried to unite them the peaceful way while some other people used force to unite people. At last, I learned that Russia is a country that used a lot of propaganda to share their opinion, or just to warn other people. So my conclusion is Russia used propaganda to express their ideas to the public.