[ATTRIBUTED TO] GUSTAV KLUTSIS (1895-1944) [N.E.P. RUSSIA WILL BECOME SOCIALIST RUSSIA.] 1930. 331/4x241/2 inches. Condition B+: repaired tears in margins and image; vertical and horizontal folds. An uncharacteristic photomontage attributed to one of the masters of the art form. Here, against a paper-colored background, Klutsis has constructed a complex message, more in the form of a picture-poem, than his usual, simple, strong graphic propaganda posters. In Russia, from 1921-1927 the N.E.P. (New Economic Policy), was Lenin's "enlightened" recovery plan, in which entrepreneurialism was encouraged (amongst small businesses) and the arts flourished. When Stalin took complete control of the Soviet state, in 1928, he put an end to the liberties of the N.E.P. and threw the country, full tilt, into the five-year plan. 1930 was in the middle of the first 5 year plan, and Stalin had to work hard to both disengage people from the previous N.E.P. mentality and make them work harder, together, towards his ultimate goal of total socialism. Here all of the elements of the Soviet Industrial State are represented: factories, warehouses, storage facilities, farms, trains, workers, etc, all being driven by power-lines fed from a turbine on the right side of the image, all over-seen by a towering Lenin, situated in such a way as to imply that he is the source of al the energy driving the industrial machine. Constructivist pl 72.
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