cover image A Bolshevik Poster

A Bolshevik Poster

Stephen White. Yale University Press, $35 (159pp) ISBN 978-0-300-04869-8

The omnipresent and multifarious placards that emerged during the time of the Soviet civil war are illustrated here and placed in a historical framework. ``White writes a fast-moving history of this unique confluence of art and `agitational literature,' '' reported PW. (Nov.)