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The Posters That Went to War · Revolution and Civil War
Smert' Mirovomu Imperializmu
Dmitry Moor (1883-1946) · Bolshevik poster, 1919, 1919
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 lithograph Dmitry Moor made in 1919, 106 by 71.4 cm, discussed in Alla Rosenfeld's essay Early Soviet Posters of the Revolutionary Era, 1917–1927, published by the Merrill C. Berman Collection in 2019.
Why it matters
Death to World Imperialism counts among the canonical Bolshevik posters. Its serpent borrows from the fourth-century legend of Saint George slaying the dragon, the old image of an oppressive force.
What to notice
The serpent of capital, wound round a factory.
An old dragon, given a new owner.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Dmitry Moor (1883-1946)
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Bolshevik poster, 1919, 1919
- 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-Art, PD-Art/en, PD-Art/layout).
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