Propaganda Posters

Mao Zedong was a military and political leader in China. He started the Communist Party of China. Mao is a very controversial and was labelled a radical activist. He was influenced by the Russian revolution and believed that Nationalists were vulnerable economically and politically. In 1962 he prompted the Socialist Education Movement. Mao was in many propaganda posters in the early half of the Cultural Revolution. The propaganda posters of Mao were designed by his army.
Mao Zedong had been put into propaganda posters since the 1940’s. There are many posters showing Mao as “super person.” They show him as a great family man, a Wiseman and a great leader. Some posters show him surrounded by other people. The people around him all have the same body type, and are dressed in worker or peasant colours. Their faces all look very similar. In every poster Mao is shown surrounded by red and usually had a light colour surrounded his head like a halo that lit up individuals around him. No grey or black was allowed to be used while shading him.

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This is a propaganda posters showing Vladimir Lenin. Lenin was a Russian communist. Vladimir joined the Marxist group and led the October Revolution. He was the first person to become head of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. While Russia was under Lenin they established the first government department for women and became the first country to decriminalize homosexuality. In 1919 he and Bolshevik lead the Communist International. Many political groups tried to overthrow the communist government.
Many of the propaganda posters depicting Lenin show him as being bigger than everything else. The posters show crowds of people at Lenin’s feet, usually all wearing the same thing. They also show a lot of buildings and technology. This shows the revolution that was going on while Lenin was in charge.