1921: Electrification Campaign

Electrification of the Countryside

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Gustav Klucis: Electrification of the Entire Country (1920)

Source:
 Leah Dickerman, ed.: Building the Collective: Soviet graphic design, 1917-1937. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. 1996.

Arkadii Shaikhet: Il'ich's Little Lamp (1925)

The popular embodiment of the electrification was the bare light bulb hanging in a newly-bright peasant hut, the so-called "Lenin's little lamp" (lampochka Lenina). A portrait of Mikhail Frunze hangs in the background
Source:
 Grigori Chudakov, Olga Suslova, and Lilya Ukhtomskaya, eds.: Pioneers of Soviet photography. New York: Thames and Hudson. 1983.

The Soviet and Electrification (1921)

The Soviet and Electrification are the Foundation of a New World

Shass-Kobelev: Lenin and Volkhvostroi (1925)

Source:
 I. I. Kuptsov: Idushchie vperedi. Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik. 1987.

S. Ivanov: Volkhvostroi (1926)

Source:
 Sergei Morozov: Sovetskaia khudozhestvennaia fotografiia. Moscow: Iskusstvo. 1958.