Content note: Poster images of a ruined house, a grieving woman beside a fallen figure and red-flag marchers, set against a harvest scene. This object is shown as it was published. Why
1919 Bolscevismo / 1923 Fascismo: PNF election poster as reproduced in L'Illustration, April 1924
Two-panel election poster headed '1919 - Bolscevismo' and '1923 - Fascismo'. On the left, men under a red flag stand over a ruined house and a seated woman beside a fallen figure; on the right, reapers and a woman carrying a sheaf work a field in daylight. Chosen scenes of disorder are set against chosen scenes of order, and the whole difference is credited to the ideology in the label.
- Date
- April 5, 1924
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- National Fascist Party (PNF), 1924 election campaign; reproduced in L'Illustration, Paris
- Country
- Fascist Italy
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Fascist Italy
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Card stackingScapegoating
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan of L'Illustration, 5 April 1924), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published in France 1924, before 1931; Commons PD-old-100)
Poster by the PNF (artist not named); reproduced in L'Illustration, Paris, 5 April 1924. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
1919 - BOLSCEVISMO 1923 - FASCISMO PNF [French caption printed beneath the image in L'Illustration:] Les méfaits du bolchevisme en 1919; les bienfaits du fascisme en 1923. [illegible]e pour la période électorale.
1919 - BOLSHEVISM 1923 - FASCISM PNF (National Fascist Party) [French caption:] The misdeeds of Bolshevism in 1919; the benefits of fascism in 1923. [illegible] for the electoral period.
The last line of the French caption is cut off at the left edge of the committed image, so its first word or words are marked [illegible]. The tiny artist or printer marks in the lower corners of each panel are not legible.
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