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title: Under the Banner of Lenin, for Socialist Construction (Pod znamenem Lenina za sotsialisticheskoe stroitelstvo)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/klucis-under-the-banner-of-lenin-1930/
description: Photomontage poster. Lenin's face fills the foreground, with a darker, half-hidden portrait of Stalin (so identified by the Commons record) rising behind…
section: Collection
---

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[![Under the Banner of Lenin, for Socialist Construction (Pod znamenem Lenina za sotsialisticheskoe stroitelstvo)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/klucis-under-the-banner-of-lenin-1930.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/klucis-under-the-banner-of-lenin-1930.jpg)

# Under the Banner of Lenin, for Socialist Construction (Pod znamenem Lenina za sotsialisticheskoe stroitelstvo)

Photomontage poster. Lenin's face fills the foreground, with a darker, half-hidden portrait of Stalin (so identified by the Commons record) rising behind his shoulder, over a collage of cranes, derricks and a factory yard, under the line 'Under the banner of Lenin, for socialist construction'. Placing the living leader inside the dead leader's likeness and slogan is the transfer tell.

## Text on the object

Original (Russian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ПОД ЗНАМЕНЕМ
ЛЕНИНА

ЗА
СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОЕ
СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВО

[illegible: printer's imprint and edition line in small type along the bottom edge]
[illegible: artist's signature, vertical, lower right edge]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
UNDER THE BANNER
OF LENIN

FOR
SOCIALIST
CONSTRUCTION

[illegible]
[illegible]
```

The slogan is read from the large lettering; the small-type imprint and the signature are not legible at 500 pixels wide.

[← Рабочий СССР — на борьбу за пятилетку! (Worker of the USSR: Fight for the Five-Year Plan! Worker of the West: Fight for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/griffel-five-year-plan-workers-of-the-west-1930/) [In Our Kolkhoz There Is No Place for Priests and Kulaks (V nashem kolkhoze net mesta popam i kulakam) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mikhailov-no-place-for-priests-and-kulaks-1930/)

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