Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
There are two classes, two cultures.
Call Number
A South 04/Drawer 06/GC091/Elephant Folio GA 2010.01185
Identifier
ark:/88435/ms35tk15v
Publisher
1934.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1934
Extent
1 item ; sheet 36 x 23 1/2 in..
Source Acquisition
Gift of Oliver Langenberg, Princeton University Class of 1935.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Unidentified Artist [illustrator]
Medium: Lithographs
Depiction: One half of the poster shows a Facist soldier (wearing a Nazi swastika armband) burning books by Communist authors. The presence of a church in the background and a book by Albert Einstein shows how Facists destroy all works that are seemingly anti-religious. The other half of the poster shows the triumphant workers lifting up books by Communist authors.
Item description: From a group of Russian propaganda posters that were collected in the summer of 1934 by Oliver Langenberg (Princeton Class of 1935) and three college friends, who were traveling through the Soviet Union, observing first-hand the early attempts of the Soviet government to build a new society that would be a "workers paradise."

Discovery Information

Subject
Propaganda, Communist—Soviet Union—Specimens
Soviet Union—History—19171936—Posters
Soviet Union—Social conditions—19171936—Posters
Political posters, Soviet—Specimens
Printed ephemera—Soviet Union—Specimens
Ephemera—20th century
Book burning—Soviet Union—Posters
Soldiers—Germany—20th century—Posters

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
Holding location
{@id=https://bibdata.princeton.edu/locations/delivery_locations/13}
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1d8f6356-a023-44a2-922a-4cf8329ac959/manifest