Rev.] Grazhdanskaya Voyna v Obrazakh Vizual’noy Propagandy. Slovar’-spravochnik. [The civil war in images of visual propaganda. Dictionary.] Ed. by E.A. Orekh. St Petersburg: Scythia-print publ., 2018

Abstract

This book systematizes and analyzes the visual material of “red” and “white” propaganda from the period of the Russian Civil war. Representation of war is considered through the prism of images of its participants, found on posters, cartoons, postcards, leaflets, propaganda porcelain and other visual artifacts of the period. The classification of images is based on the social group affiliation of the depicted characters. Given such an approach, the focus is on representatives of groups — participants of civil confrontation, typical actors, visual clichés of “friends” and “enemies”. The work is carried out using an extensive source base concerning the ideological confrontation of that time, domestic and foreign literature devoted to the visualization of the events taking place then.