Content note: Soviet poster with grotesque green-skinned caricatures of a capitalist and a Social Democrat officer being trampled. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Proletarians of All Countries, Unite! (XII years of October)
A red-clad worker with a rifle and a flaming 'Comintern' banner strides over two toppled figures, a top-hatted capitalist on a bulging moneybag and a helmeted officer wearing an 'S-D' badge, against a skyline of smoking factories lettered 'USSR' and a seal reading 'XII years of October'. The opponents are drawn as grotesque, green-skinned types and the title is the call to unite: the name-calling tell.
- Date
- 1929
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- State Publishing House (Gosizdat), Moscow and Leningrad; artist not identified
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Labor, War and the military
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- 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
Unknown artist, 1929. Duke University Libraries, Russian Posters Collection, https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4vq2v696, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
КОМИНТЕРН XII ЛЕТ ОКТЯБРЯ СССР [on the moneybag: a figure of 1 followed by zeros, count not reliably legible] [on the officer's collar badge: С-Д] ПРОЛЕТАРИИ ВСЕХ СТРАН, СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ! 35 коп. [illegible: imprint line in small type along the bottom edge]
COMINTERN XII YEARS OF OCTOBER USSR [figure on the moneybag] [badge: S-D] PROLETARIANS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! 35 kop. [illegible]
Pencilled library annotations at the top left are omitted; the small imprint line and the digits on the moneybag are not reliably legible.
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