SANDWICHED IN: Art As Propaganda.

SANDWICHED IN: Art As Propaganda. The Russian Revolution had to be “sold” to the population, most of whom were illiterate. Paper was scarce and printing presses even scarcer. Between 1911 and 1924, Lenin and Trotski declared that only posters promoting the revolution were to be printed. Russia’s foremost artists were recruited for this campaign to promote messages of peace, abolition of illiteracy, anti-Semitism, greater justice for all, and more equitable distribution of land and food. Join Evelyn Silver, docent at the Nassau County Museum, for this slide-illustrated lecture. 12:10 p.m.