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.

Date: 1930
Period: Interwar
Made by: Soviet state poster publishing; poster by Gustav Klutsis (Gustavs Klucis)
Region: Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country: Soviet Union
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Soviet Union
Leader: Joseph Stalin
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: Economy and finance, Labor
Event: First Five Year Plan
Techniques: Transfer
Regime: Soviet Union under Stalin
Leader: Joseph Stalin
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons (via Google Arts & Culture), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (published 1930, before 1931; artist d. 1938)
Gustav Klutsis, 1930. Image via Google Arts & Culture and Wikimedia Commons (PD-Art, PD-old-70).

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.

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

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