SOVIET POSTERS IN LITHUANIA IN 1940–1953

• Main Author: Bajoraite, Alma
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vilnius University Press 2006-12-01
• Series: Knygotyra
• Subjects: posters; propaganda; Soviet rule; Lithuania; 1940-1953
• Online Access: http://www.leidykla.eu/fileadmin/Knygotyra/47/ALMA_BAJORAITE..pdf

The Soviet occupation and their ideology brought to Lithuania a new poster quality. The paper analyzes the problem of posters propaganda and manipulation, the inheritance of the not traditional documents and their inventory. The goal of this paper is to analyze the soviet posters in Lithuania in 1940–1953.The principal problems of this paper are to research the formation and the domination of the posters in Lithuania: which role they had in the politics. The paper also analyzes the soviet posters impact on farming and their influence to the society.To sum up, the new trend of art appeared in 1940 in Lithuania, which had the principal goal to propagate the soviet ideology in all the political and social spheres. The goal of the soviet posters as the media of information was to provide the distorted view of the reality. The soviet posters had dominated in Lithuania in 1940–1953. This period had left a very interesting and rich heritage. It is the importatant part of the cultural and historical heritage.