47 77 (WORLD WAR I). “Austro-Russki Zeppelin.” Text in Russian. 20.5 x 28.5 inches (52.1 x 72.4 cm). Laid down. Russia, c. 1915. $1000-1500 ❧ The poster depicts representatives of Russia’s varied classes and ethnic groups (including a Hassidic Jew) surveying a downed German zeppelin and its enemy crew. To the right below, a poem taunts Austria and Germany, the last lines reading: “Two friends with a like mind, two villains. Despite all their threats, their dreams will not be realized.” 78 (SOVIET UNION). “Religia i Zhenshchina” [“Religion and Women”]. Text in Russian. 27.5 x 40.5 inches (69.9 x 102.8 cm). Laid down. Moscow, c. 1925. $1200-1800 ❧ World religions are depicted as enslaving women, forcing them to remain in the home and maintaining them as unequal to men. Misogynistic verses from different religious texts are cited as proof of the poster’s claims. Only the complete rejection of religion and the full embrace of Communism will set women free of misogyny. 79 (SOVIET UNION). Smotri Tovarishch [“Look, Comrade.”] “Anti-Semitism Is Against the Revolution - The Anti-Semite Is Our Class Enemy.” Designed by Aleksandr Tyshler. 24 x 39 inches (61 x 99.1 cm). Framed. 1928. $5000-7000 ❧ Communist agitprop blaming anti-Semitism on the Czarist regime. A representative group of Russia’s dignitaries and social classes present a bouquet of severed heads. “See, these are the animal-like people who brought anti-Semitism to Czarist Russia. All the class enemies you know: The Czar, the minister, the priest, the landowner, the kulak, the gendarme, the Black Hundreds - they are the organizers of the pogroms and caused the persecution of the Jews. Lot 77 Lot 78 Lot 79