page_title: Anti-Bolshevik propaganda
section_title: Notable examples
hierarchical_section_title: Anti-Bolshevik propaganda / Anti-Bolshevik propaganda in Poland / Propaganda posters / Notable examples
caption_attribution_description: English: Trotsky depicted by Polish propaganda as a blood-soaked Bolshevik during the Polish-Russian war of 1920
context_page_description: Anti-Bolshevik propaganda was created in opposition to the events on the Russian political scene. The Bolsheviks were members of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party which came to power during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The word "Bolshevik" means "one of the majority" in Russian and is derived from the word "большинство" which means "majority" in English. The group was founded at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party when Vladimir Lenin’s followers gained majority on the party’s central committee and on the editorial board of the newspaper Iskra. Their opponents were the Mensheviks, whose name literally means "Those of the minority" and is derived from the word меньшинство.
  On 7 November 1917, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was proclaimed. The Bolsheviks changed their name to Russian Communist Party in March 1918; to All-Union Communist Party in December 1925; and to Communist Party of the Soviet Union in October 1952.
context_section_description: The poster "Hej, kto Polak, na bagnety!" (English: "Hey, whoever is a Pole, to your bayonette!"). The quote originates from the Polish patriotic poem and celebratory anthem "Rota" written by the poet and an activist for Polish independence Maria Konopnicka. The poster features three men, seemingly belonging to different social groups, but uniting in fight.
  The poster "Bij Bolszewika" (English: "Beat the Bolshevik!") portraying a Polish soldier fighting a red, three-headed dragon symbolizing the enemy.
  The poster "Do broni. Wstępujcie do Armji Ochotniczej!" (English: "To the arms! Join the volunteer army!"), where the Bolshevik enemy is portrayed as three-headed dragon, breathing fire. Fighting the hydra is a Polish soldier.
  The poster "Potwór Bolszewicki" (English: "The Bolshevik Monster"), where the enemy is presented a skeleton riding a two-headed horse with heads of Vladimir Lenin and Lev Trotsky.
caption: A poster depicting Lev Trotsky.  Small caption in the lower right corner reads:  The Bolsheviks promised: We'll give you peace  We'll give you freedom  We'll give you land  Work and bread  Despicably they cheated  They started a war  With Poland Instead of freedom they brought  The fist  Instead of land -confiscation  Instead of work – misery  Instead of bread – famine.
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