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Artist

Dmitry Moor (Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov) (1883 - 1946)

Title

Did You Volunteer?

Creation Date

1920

Century

early 20th century

Dimensions

41 x 28 in. (104.14 x 71.12 cm)

Object Type

Creation Place

Asia, Russia

Medium and Support

lithograph on paper

Credit Line

Generously lent by Svetlana and Eric Silverman ’85, P’19

Copyright

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Posters by Dmitry Moor and others integrated powerful visual and verbal rhetoric to address the urgent issues of the day and served as an important weapon of Bolshevik class warfare. Moor created this iconic image of a Red Army recruiting officer, allegedly in a single night. It borrows from two precedents: James Montgomery Flagg’s famous portrait of “Uncle Sam,” first published in 1916 with the title “What Are You Doing for Preparedness?” and Alfred Leete’s 1914 portrayal of Lord Kitchener declaring “Your country needs YOU.”