“USSR is The Shock Brigade of the Worldwide Proletariat!”

The Vladimir Mayakovsky Museum, Moscow (Russia).

Printing on paper.

By the early 1930s, the Soviet avant-garde and Constructivism had less and less freedom for creativity, and the propaganda component became the leading one. Gustavs Klucis, sincerely believing in the correctness and righteousness of the Soviet idea, created the greatest number of political works in those years. In this one, the author resorts to allegory – the fighter for socialism (the photograph of a worker) is great not only figuratively, but also in the literal sense. Representatives of different nationalities are listening to him “from below” – these are photographs of an Indian, a Negro, etc. But this is not enough. The composition includes a direct slogan that says: “Workers of all countries, defend your socialist fatherland!”