(Part 2) Best products from r/PropagandaPosters

If you like these, this is the definitive collection:

Beauty Is in the Street: A Visual Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising https://www.amazon.com/dp/0956192831/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_E9REDbYXK7W1X

This is in a great compilation book called Posters for the People. It covers poster art from the WPA. Highly recommended.

http://www.amazon.com/Posters-People-Ennis-Carter/dp/1594742928

This Punitive Expedition was in response to the [Battle of Columbus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Columbus_(1916), where Pancho Villa raided the New Mexico town of Columbus (which is smoldering in the background)

The artist is Sam Berryman, who's credited with creating the famous "Teddy Bear" in his cartoons about Theodore Roosevelt during his Presidency

edit: I've been reading "The Great Call Up" recently, and it goes into how in 1916, Wilson mobilized the entire National Guard (Around 150,000 men), in order to secure the border against an unstable Mexico & it's German sponsored rebels.

The Great Call Up was a a logistical DISASTER. But the mobilization lessons learned during it, significantly helped out just a year later when war were declared on the German Empire & their allies in WWI. IF you enjoy "forgotten" history, the book is amazing.

I recently read a very good historical novel about this assassination called HHhH.

https://www.amazon.com/HHhH-Novel-Laurent-Binet/dp/1250033349

Some of my favorites from this book:

http://www.amazon.com/DDR-Posters-East-German-Propaganda/dp/3791348086

I can try to get better scans if anybody needs them in a different format or such.

Watch the 9 minute long Planet of the Arabs made by the Media Education Foundation that demonstrates “Hollywood’s relentless vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims”, which is inspired by the book Reel Bad Arabs, and it's pretty clear that it's not "cultural sensitivity" that has changed, it's just different people who are being demonized.

>The American arms build-up, plus the privatization of the nuclear industry which allowed the international sales of nuclear technologies, was only possible because of the amendment of the Atomic Energy Act in 1954, one year after Truman left office.

the american arms build up and legalizing the private nuclear industry had nothing to do with one another.

In general, you seem to be laboring under the illusion that wikipedia is a legitimate source for detailed historical analysis. it is not. It can be relied on for facts and timelines, not much more than that. Your repeated quoting of it does little but demonstrate your lack of knowledge of the period. The eisenhower administration used nuclear weapons as a way to SAVE money and spend less on arms. Rather than fight expensive border wars like Korea, or go to the enormous expense of matching the USSR tank for tank, the eisenhower plan was to rely on relatively cheap nuclear firepower to contain the USSR.

>I guess if Kennedy got elected by claiming that such a massive build-up was not enough then people at the time were frightened, or uninformed.

both were true, but neither was the point. nuclear buildup was popular. It did not need to be concealed behind other programs.

>Frankly, I am just basing my understanding on the work of historians and nuclear engineers, do you have some better sources I should be reading?

Wikipedia does not equal historians, and a couple random web pages do not equal nuclear engineers. Try reading actual books about the evolution of the american and soviet militaries and national security policy.

This is a 1921 satirical cartoon by an artist called Leo Cheney from a defunct British publication called The Passing Show showing the Empire-building powers of the time- Italy, France, USA, UK and Japan- politely discussing disarmament.

The first time I encountered this was around 1985 in a book called Atlas of Global Strategy which, despite its name, is strongly pro-disarmament. The copy I owned was, I think, an earlier edition than that which I've linked to and the latest news in it was that Mikhail Gorbachev had just become the leader of the USSR after Konstantin Chernenko.

The cartoon was reproduced towards the back of the book with the (paraphrased) explanation that "There has never been reluctance to pursue disarmament, just reluctance to be the first."

Looking back, I'm not sure I agree with that interpretation. Now it looks more like rather than not wanting to be the first, each Empire builder wants to be the last to enter- to be the only one left outside holding a significant stockpile. The politeness is presumably because the nations depicted were meant to be allies and had acted as such until a couple of years previously during WWI- hence why the USSR and Germany are not included.

More information on The Passing Show.

Examples of political satire from other sources that was then republished by The Passing Show in the 1920s.

Further examples of the work of Leo Cheney for The Passing Show- some of it quite vicious in nature.

I've actually found it quite difficult to unearth much information on either The Passing Show or Leo Cheney, but it seems to me that in its original incarnation it would have been similar to a 1920s version of Private Eye- namely a funny version of Punch.

Anyway, I find this image particularly interesting because I believe it to have been 1920s political satire misinterpreted and used for propaganda over 60 years later.

I agree with the overuse, although I think Chris Hedges did a fairly good job in identifying one:

http://www.amazon.com/American-Fascists-Christian-Right-America/dp/0743284437

If anyone is interested in Soviet propaganda posters, this book displays a wealth of them (Including this one!).

The Gulag Archipelago

It's extremely long and I'm afraid I have no idea where that particular anecdote is in the book. That link is to just the first three parts. I'm not sure which translation I used because I actually listened to the audiobook version, which is well done (some British fellow with a crisp accent and a wry inflection). It is filled with marvelous stories.

If you want something shorter to start out with you could try One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, which is about life in the Gulag.

Is there a higher quality version of this? I'd love something like this for my background.

edit: using reverse image search, this appears to be of equal resolution to all the others. Damn, I guess we'd need someone to taker a better scan of the original.

edit2: It appears you can buy these off of amazon in various sizes. 24x36, 11x17, 18x24. Not on amazon.co.uk unfortunately. I've never heard of the site redbubble before, but you can get them here

Plenty more from the fantastic website, Dr. Seuss Went to War. I seem to recall a coffee-table book of these - ah, here it is.

they sell it on Amazon in a nice frame

Looks like they're worth about $12 for the full set.

Hijacking the topic to recommend the novel The Living And The Dead by the same author Konstantin Simonov. That's unflattered drama about the first months of the Eastern Front. It was published at the time when most veterans were alive and wounds of war are fresh. Probably one of the best war drama ever written. Surprisingly lesser biased for its time and place (except: a secondary character, commissar, is a good guy, but this was probably unavoidable).

Sorry for offtopic.

/goodreads

There was Soviet movie of the same name, but it aged not so well and now looks quite archaic.

^(^You ^better ^watch ^Das ^Boot ^instead.)

I actually learned it first from one of my favorite books as a kid.

I highly recommend Richard J Evans's The Third Reich at War, the last volume in a masterful history of Nazi Germany going back to its roots in Bismarckian Germany. If you'd prefer not to shell out money for it, it's probably at your local library, and you may be able to get free samples of specific chapters.

Section 4 ("The New Order") deals with this, specifically the subchapter "No Better Than Pigs" which deals specifically with foreign workers in Germany during the war.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035U33H4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00__o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Amazon is kind of impressive. You'd probably find cheaper else where but I'm lazy....

Dr Seuss Goes to War. I own a copy and it's a must have for any WWII buff.