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Antikbar One sheet travel poster
vintage Soviet travel poster for the region of Tadzhikistan, commissioned by the state tourism agency, Intourist. The poster features a woman in traditional clothing holding a decorative plate with an image of what appears to be a local architectural landmark and mountains.
Poster Details
Subject: The poster advertises travel to Soviet Tadzhikistan (now Tajikistan), one of the Central Asian republics of the USSR.
Agency: It was produced by Intourist, the official state travel agency which held a monopoly on foreign tourism in the Soviet Union.
Purpose: The poster, like others of its era, was intended to project a positive, culturally rich, and modern image of the USSR to attract foreign currency and serve as propaganda.
Style and Era: These travel posters often used an Art Deco or a local folk-art style, rather than the Socialist Realism prevalent in domestic propaganda, and were popular in the 1930s, though similar styles continued into later decades. |
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