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:
I’m not sure why but I wasn’t so surprised to see almost every board game cover featuring warfare, chemical weapons, and radiation poisoning. They do look like fun games though.
No radiation poisoning just yet! (These games only go up to 1938). But yeah, Revolution, the game! Chemical Warfare, the game! Air struggle, the game! Pirates, the game! Electrification, the game!
The world map board under which you have put a caption about domination looks post-1938. There is a mid-century car in N. America, a fighter jet over Greenland, a helicopter over Scandinavia, and an airliner flying over the Aral Sea.
It has more of a whimsical 1960s feel to it, IMO.
Whatever the explanation, great stuff! Thanks, Ross!
since the Moscow drawing features the Ostankino Tower, it’s probably post-1967.