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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · Revolution and Civil War
Esli ne Khotite Vozvrata k Proshlomu, Vintovku v Ruki! Na Pol'skii Front!
Ivan Malyutin (1889-1932) · ROSTA, Moscow, 1920
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A colour lithograph Ivan Malyutin drew for ROSTA, the Russian Telegraph Agency, in Moscow in 1920, to words attributed to Vladimir Mayakovsky, 54 by 71 cm, from the Russian State Library.
Why it matters
If you do not want the past back, rifle in hand! To the Polish front! The sheet is the Soviet side of the 1920 war with Poland, drawn by one of the ROSTA artists.
What to notice
A sheet wider than it is tall, its title a condition and then two orders.
The past, held off at rifle's length.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Ivan Malyutin (1889-1932)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Army
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- ROSTA, Moscow, 1920
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02: Public domain (PD-Layout, PD-Russia-expired, PD-Russia-expired/en).
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