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Journal of Design History 2000 13(2):123-136; doi:10.1093/jdh/13.2.123
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Festival Decoration of the City

The Materialization of the Communist Myth in the 1930s

Iurii Gerchuk


  Abstract

The Stalinist regime was supported not only by mass political terror but also by a purposeful and powerful system of propaganda that formed and imposed the ideology of communism. One of the most timely and politically effective forms of visual matenalisation of this myth was the festival , which became an important means for the regime's self-affirmation Colossal panels, flags and painted portraits decorated the facades of public buildings and enormous models of factories, aeroplanes and engines were paraded through the streets. The art of the festival was ephemeral, and only photographs and written accounts remain to give some sense of the character and scope of these mass parades and spectacles This papaer utilizes unpublished images from the photographic archive of the Moscow Artists' Union, as well as the author's own memory as an eyewitness who observed festive Moscow before the Second World War

Key Words: festival • Moscow • posters • propaganda • Soviet Union • Stalin


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