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title: Red Army Poster
author: Imperial War Museums
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/20146/red-army-poster/
format: machine-readable-alternate
license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
updated: 2025-03-06
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# Red Army Poster
_Authored by Imperial War Museums_
## Image File
[](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/20146.jpg)
## Image Caption
A lithograph propaganda poster encouraging support of the Red Army by an unknown artist, 1919. The poster features two figures: on the right a soldier in a cossack-style hat and coat, holding a rifle, and on the left a proletarian worker holding a scimitar. They are holding up a banner that reads 'Red Army', and includes the communist symbol of the hammer and sickle. The text below is translated to 'The Defence of the Proletarian Revolution'.
Imperial [War](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/War/) Museums, London
## Cite This Work
### APA
Museums, I. W. (2025, March 06). Red Army Poster. *World History Encyclopedia*.
### Chicago
Museums, Imperial War. "Red Army Poster." *World History Encyclopedia*, March 06, 2025. .
### MLA
Museums, Imperial War. "Red Army Poster." *World History Encyclopedia*, 06 Mar 2025, .
## License & Copyright
[Original image](https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/27931) by **Imperial War Museums**. Submitted by [Scarlett Hart](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/scarletthart/ "User Page: Scarlett Hart"), published on 06 March 2025. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en). This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.