Exhibitions of Russian Bolshevik and Anti-Bolshevik Posters and Paintings by L. N. Brailowsky

The following block quotation references the series of posters on view in the exhibition:

Col. Lissovoy’s posters collection includes hundreds of specimens, some of them gained at the risk of his life, for the Bolshevist posters bear the stamped inscription ‘To remove or deface this placard is an act against the soviet, punishable by death.’

Some of the Bolshevist posters show the worker trampling upon a snake, which in some instances represents capitalism, and in others, the church. Anti-Bolshevist posters represent the snake as bearing the head of Trotzky [sic]… and many other evils of Bolshevism.

The original poster from which one anti-Bolshevist poster was reproduced shows Satan and Death guiding the hand of Trotzky as he signs the death warrant of Russia…