Games of revolution and industry
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Image: Reds and Whites, a war game!
A Soviet board-game from 1929.
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Thanks to Retronaut for posting these. The one advantage my posting of these has over the Retronaut site is that these images are much higher resolution. My favorites among these include the “electrification” board-game, the chemical war game, and the Reds vs. the Whites game.
1925
Revolution, the game!
1929
Reds and Whites, the game! (Notice the boss constructivist lettering).
1925
Chemical Warfare, the game!
Modern Fight, the game! 1933
Modern Fight, the game!
Air Struggle, 1925
Air Struggle, the game!
1926
The only other thing I’ll say is that one can see the change in the officially-sanctioned styles from the more avant-garde lines, shapes, and typography to the cartoon realism of caricatured figures in the Sots-art of the 1930s. See more here: Continue reading
