Word War II Poster Book Cover- Early Modern

This is a Russian poster converted to a book cover for a World War II poster book. It is a propaganda poster book and is very evident that the style is Early Modern. It depicts a determined soldier rushing over his recently defeated enemies further into the fight. In the distance, yet, alongside him, are his allies ready to back up. Though it appears as if he had already overcome some enemy soldiers he seems prepared for even more bloodshed. He is boldly fighting for his country.

In the original poster where the author's name is there are Russian words that translate in English to “Over the enemy land to victory!” Most likely, you did not need these words to figure out the meaning of the poster.

This caught my eye because I’ve personally always enjoyed the color schemes of pink to blue and good illustration. As it turns out there is more meaning to this color scheme than meets the eye. The Russian Army is illustrated in the vibrant Red as they were known as ‘The Red Army’. As the red illustrations of the Russian army are above the dead and darkened figures of the German soldiers they are showing supremacy, namely their victory at the Battle of Kursk in July 1943.

As a book cover it’s function and purpose is to show off a prodigious example of the amazing posters that came out of WW II. It’s function is to entice you to look inside and check out the other posters. As a poster back in 1943 it’s purpose was to remind the Soviet Union of their previous victory and encourage faith in their army.

As stated in the last post this is once again a gracious gift from my father from his collection of WW II books company.