Political Posters Map 100 Years Of Clashing Ideologies

A U.S. Marine Corps recruitment poster from 1917

"Loan for Freedom," 1917

A capitalist, a priest, and a kulak, or wealthy farmer, pull the carriage of White Army commander Aleksandr Kolchak in this 1919 poster.

"Strike Down Bolshevism," 1919

"The Bourgeois-Democratic Party," 1919

A 1921 poster, reading "Help," illustrates the impact of the famine in Russia.

"By the end of the five-year plan, collectivization in the U.S.S.R. should be principally finished." 1932

A 1932 advertisement for the Czechoslovak Aero car

"Fascism: The Concentration Camp of Nations," 1941

An untitled poster from 1945

A Czechoslovak poster from the early 1950s reads: "The U.S.S.R. turns deserts into blossoming land. The U.S.A. turns cities and villages into deserts."

"The Motherland is Proud of Her Brave Sons," 1962

A 1987 poster by the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power demands that U.S. President Ronald Reagan address the AIDS epidemic.

A 2011 poster for the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality

"An Idea Cannot Be Destroyed," 2011