1919
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German cartoon, 1919
Text: To the short-sighted: “Are you looking for the truth? When she appears, you’ll wish her back to hell!” Year: November 1919. Publisher: Simplicissimus. Artist: Werner Hahmann. Additional information: Cartoon shows Hindenburg pulling back a curtain to reveal a socialist Medusa stabbing a German soldier in the back. Published shortly after Hindenburg’s testimony before a…
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To the lighthouse of the Communist International (Soviet poster, 1919)
Text: To the lighthouse of the Communist International. Text on the book reads: ‘Karl Marx – Proletarians of the world, unite!’ Year: 1919. Publisher: State Publishing House of the RSFSR. Artist: V. Spassky. Additional Information: Shows a man on the book of Karl Marx navigating the stormy seas, past the Russian shipwreck and towards the…
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Russia did it (American leaflet, 1919)
Text: Russia did it (full transcription below). Year: 1919. Publisher: Industrial Workers of the World/Socialist Party. Artist: NA. Additional information: Illustration shows a worker pointing at a capitalist as he guards his mountain of ‘war profits’ while the text below calls on the workers to seize the shipyards in the spirit of the Bolsheviks. 40,000…
