Although the 1920s and early 1930s were turbulent years indeed in the new Soviet Union forged out of 1917's October Revolution, despite civil war, famine, purges and mass deportations, many still clung to the dream of a workers' paradise promised by the revolutionaries who overthrew the Czarist regime.
The "Posters in Utopia" exhibition, which opened at the Kawasaki City Museum in Kanagawa Prefecture on Feb. 15 and runs through April 6, vividly conveys the enthusiasm of that period, as expressed by artists who created what came to be known as Russian Constructivism.
The exhibition features 181 posters and publications from the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg, some of which are being shown in Japan for the first time.