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Oktyabr (October), withdrawn issue
The poster for the revolution's tenth-anniversary film, pulled from the walls for showing the wrong man.
What
A Soviet sheet for Eisenstein's October, withdrawn from circulation because it depicted Leon Trotsky, by then in exile.
Why
Few surviving artefacts show the mechanics of Soviet image control this plainly. The film itself was recut to remove Trotsky; the poster could only be taken down. What remains is a printed object that the state decided should not exist.
Notice
Read this one as a document as much as a design — the figure that caused its recall is still there on the sheet.
“History as it was printed, before history was corrected.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928), dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- Country / studio
- USSR · Sovkino
- Designer
- Leonid Voronov
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Soviet lithographed film poster, 1927
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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