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Bonnell, Victoria E.,

Iconography of power : Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin / Victoria E. Bonnell. - xxii, 363 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm. - Studies on the history of society and culture ; 27 . - Studies on the history of society and culture ; 27. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344) and index.

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Key to Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Iconography of the Worker in Soviet Political Art -- Representation of Women in Early Soviet Posters -- Peasant Women in Political Posters of the 1930s -- The Leader's Two Bodies: Iconography of the Vozhd' -- Bolshevik Demonology in Visual Propaganda -- The Apotheosis of Stalinist Political Art -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

ISBN: 0520087127 9780520087125

LCCN: 96036252

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political posters, Russian

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936--Posters.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953--Posters.

LC Class. No.: DK266.3. / B58 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 947.084