This book accompanies a current(as of this review) exhibition at London's Tate Modern. The exhibition and subsequent programme (that is this book) were conceived from David King's more comprehensive work Red Star over Russia in which he fully describes his collected images and explores the relationship between the visual arts and Russia's propaganda movement.

I bet the full sized posters and art works look magnificent (I would have loved to have seen the exhibition), but the reproductions give a good indication of the types of techniques used by graphic artists of the time to push the ever changing political agenda. The images are accompanied by a fascinating long essay describing the political and social context, and in some cases provenance of individual works. I would have loved a bit more depth to this, but for an exhibition programme, it is a good overview. ( )