ROSTA Posters (also known as ROSTA Windows, russian: Окна РОСТА, ROSTA being an acronym for the
Russian Telegraph Agency
Russian Telegraph Agency (russian: Российское телеграфное агентство, ''Rossiyskoye telegrafnoye agentstvo''), abbr. ROSTA, was the state news agency in Soviet Russia (1918-35). After the creation of Telegraph Agency ...
, the state news agency from 1918 to 1935) were a propagandistic medium of communication used in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
to communicate important messages and instill specific beliefs and ideology within the minds of the masses.
Emergence
Style
Rosta posters were easily identifiable by their context and distinct style.
Agitprop
The basis for the content of ROSTA posters was political messages from the Soviet Union, sometimes referred to as agitprop. Agitprop is political
propaganda
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded ...
, especially the
communist
Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...
propaganda used in
Soviet Russia
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
, that is spread to the general public through popular media such as literature, plays, pamphlets, films, and other art forms with an explicitly political message.
Examples
File:Plakat mayakowski gross.jpg, Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Want it? Join"
File:RIAN archive 436925 Poster -742 "Rosta Windows" dedicated to Russia's electrification by Vladimir Mayakovsky.jpg, Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Poster #742"
File:Маяковский. ОКНА РОСТА.jpg, Mayakovsky, "Мир стоит на вулкане"
References
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* Ward, Alex (2008). ''Power to the People: Early Soviet Propaganda Posters in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem''. London, UK, Ashgate,
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Propaganda in the Soviet Union
Propaganda posters