October 1917 - October 1920, Long Live the Worldwide Red October!
Artist
Dmitry Moor (Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov)
(1883 - 1946)
Title
October 1917 - October 1920, Long Live the Worldwide Red October!
Creation Date
1920
Century
early 20th century
Dimensions
35 x 48 in. (88.9 x 121.92 cm)
Object Type
print
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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Created in 1920, this poster shows a Red Army cavalry soldier joined by the English, Italian, and French proletariat in crushing enemy armies. The artist uses the traditional “before and after” comparison, reinforcing the message of the spreading international revolution. Dmitry Moor was educated in Kiev, Kharkov, and Moscow but never completed his formal artistic training. Before the Revolution he submitted political cartoons for illustrated periodicals. During World War I he began to design patriotic “lubki”(originally, vernacular popular woodblock prints, and later lithographs). After the October Revolution, he forged a successful career as a designer of political posters. In 1922, in a special decree on behalf of the Soviet state, Trotsky declared Moor “a hero of the pencil and the paintbrush who raised the fighting spirit of the Red Army and lit up the path of struggle.”
