Long Live the First of May: Under the Lenin Banner of the Comintern, Forward!
A worker in a cap stands on a chained globe, one fist raised round a flag that bears Lenin's profile and the line 'Under the Lenin banner of the Comintern, forward!', while the chains snap around him. Lenin's likeness and name are put on the banner to lend the May Day call his authority, which is the transfer tell.
- Date
- 1929
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- State Publishing House (Gosizdat), Moscow and Leningrad; poster by Viktor Deni
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Theme
- Labor
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Duke University Libraries, Russian Posters Collection (via Wikimedia Commons), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1929, before 1931); Duke: no known copyright restrictions
Viktor Deni, 1929. Duke University Libraries, Russian Posters Collection, https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4hm54g2q, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
под Ленинским знаменем Коминтерна — вперед! ДА ЗДРАВСТВУЕТ ПЕРВОЕ МАЯ ДЕНИ 29 г. [illegible: imprint line in small type along the bottom edge, including the State Publishing House, Moscow 1929 Leningrad]
under the Lenin banner of the Comintern: forward! LONG LIVE THE FIRST OF MAY DENI 29 [illegible]
A pencilled English library annotation at the top left is omitted. The imprint line is too small to read reliably.
