Народы СССР раньше и теперь (The Peoples of the USSR, Before and Now: old and new life in Central Asia)
Two Central Asian scenes in one sheet. At left, yurts, a camel, riders and men in padded robes, with a figure in a white tunic and a raised fist at the edge; at right, brick factories, a tram, a street lamp, a dome and a young woman in a red headscarf and a man in a skullcap carrying a red banner. Under a pink banner in Arabic script, only the 'before' and the 'now' are shown, each with only what flatters its side of the comparison: the card-stacking tell.
- Date
- 1926
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR) publishing; poster by Boris Kustodiev
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Alexei Rykov
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- New Economic Policy
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan from artchive.ru), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (1926 work; artist d. 1927; Commons: PD-Russia/PD-old)
Boris Kustodiev, 1926, via artchive.ru and Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
[illegible: banner in Arabic script, ending in an exclamation mark; not read]
[not translated]
The only text on the hosted image is the pink banner, which was not read by a reader of the language; the artist's signature at lower left is too small to read.
