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A visually striking emblem of late Soviet idealism, this 1980 original propaganda poster captures the essence of socialist industrial solidarity. It presents a dramatic handshake between two gloved workers — monumental, solemn, and central — framed against an awe-inspiring backdrop of colossal red girders and a vast, mechanized landscape of smokestacks, refineries, and high-voltage ambition.
Created at the dawn of the 1980s — a decade of looming stagnation but also enduring industrial pride — this poster is both a celebration of technological might and a symbolic reaffirmation of Soviet unity through labor. The handshake is not merely a gesture; it’s a contract of collectivism, a tactile metaphor for brotherhood and shared responsibility within the factory, the construction site, and the Five-Year Plan.
The composition is meticulously engineered. The red steel structures form an interwoven X-pattern, commanding the visual field like a symbolic lattice of cooperation. These girders aren’t just architectural elements; they’re ideological scaffolds supporting the utopian Soviet vision of progress. Behind them looms a skyline choked in industrial haze — not dystopian, but mythic in its productivity.
Rendered in grayscale and punctuated with intense Soviet red, the design reflects the technical precision of the era’s industrial posters while carrying the emotional resonance of a pact — not just between individuals, but between human will and engineered destiny.
While unsigned, the poster’s stylistic influences echo the legacy of earlier masters like Viktor Koretsky, who fused realism and abstraction to heroic effect. Here, there is no slogan, no text — and none is needed. The image speaks in the universal visual grammar of labor, steel, and solidarity.
In today’s context, it reads as a poetic relic of a time when industry was imagined as the spine of the state — and the handshake was the sacred symbol of unity beneath the smoke and iron.
USSR - Propaganda - Industry - Russia
- Creation Year:1980
- Dimensions:Height: 38.19 in (97 cm)Width: 26.38 in (67 cm)
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- Condition:Good condition.
- Gallery Location:PARIS, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1792216462222
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