Image: VictimOfInternational

Description: "Sacrifice to the International", a White Russian anti-Bolshevik propaganda poster produced during the Russian Civil War. In this image, a number of senior Bolsheviks - Uritzky, Sverdlov, Zinoviev, Lunacharsky, Lenin, Patrovsky, Trotsky, Kamenev, and Radek - sacrifice an allegorical character representing Russia to a statue of Karl Marx. The figure of Alexander Kerensky can be seen behind these figures, looking on impotently. In the foreground are negative stereotypes of Red Army characters, a sailor, and Jews, one of whom holds a bag of thirty pieces of silver, a reference to the Biblical figure of Judas Iscariot.
Title: VictimOfInternational
Credit: Reproduced in various historical studies of revolutionary Russia, and on various websites, including that of the Victoria and Albert Museum, which has a copy of the poster in its collection.
Author: An anonymous author known only as "M.V."
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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