Poster of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, 1989.
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Collection, H.C. Fung Library
This collection contains about 200 posters dating from 1919 to the 1990s. Included are:
- Pro-literacy posters from the early Soviet period
- World War II propaganda posters
- Several bound poster collections from the postwar era lampooning NATO, Western capitalism, and religious belief
- Poster collections from the 1980s proclaiming the dangers of drugs and alcohol
- Poster sets from the late Soviet period commemorating Lenin's life and Soviet participation in World War II, among other events
- Four Boris Yeltsin presidential campaign posters from the 1990s
- Miscellaneous anti-war posters
- Reprints of pages from the newspapers Izvestiia and Pravda
A set of anti-alcoholism posters, 1988.
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Collection, H.C. Fung Library
Accessing These Materials
The collection record in HOLLIS includes a detailed description of the collection. A complete inventory is also available from library staff.
This collection is available for in-library use only. Please contact the Fung Library to request access.
Contact
Svetlana Rukhelman