“Literacy is the Road to Communism.”

(SOVIET UNION).

Moscow, c. 1917-20

Text in Yiddish and Russian. Published by Gosizdat.

In its early years, the Soviet regime conscripted thousands of teachers and organized extensive campaigns to combat illiteracy. This poster uses the classical symbol of the winged horse Pegasus as a distributor of knowledge. The text in the book reads: “Proletarians of all countries…”