After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, political unrest grew and the past revolutionary spirit seen in Russian art turned into propagandist work. By the beginning of the 1930s, poster production was strictly reserved for commissioned artists as well as the images, text, and symbols used. Posters made by amateur artists were destroyed and confiscated. In a diary entry by Kulgalina dated 1935, she documented the frustration and difficulty in making posters for Stalin and the government, only for them to be chosen under strict guidelines promoting censorship in her work. Most posters of this time were rejected or sent back for major revision.