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[AZERBAIJAN] Prekrasna rodina moya! [i.e. My Beautiful Motherland!]

Item #2836

Moscow: Soyuzplakat, 1972. Color lithographic poster (59 × 85 cm [23 ¼ × 33 ½ in.]). A few short tears along the lower margin; otherwise in very good condition. Unbacked.

Issued in 1972, the poster celebrates the Soviet Union through one of its most economically important republics—Azerbaijan. At the center stands a young Azerbaijani woman in traditional-inspired dress holding a bouquet of red tulips, while behind her unfolds a panoramic view of Baku, combining the city's greenery and modern architecture with the famous offshore oil fields of the Caspian Sea. Agricultural fields in the foreground merge seamlessly into the industrial landscape, presenting Azerbaijan as a republic where natural beauty, agriculture, urban development, and petroleum production coexist in harmony.

For Azerbaijan, a republic with a predominantly Muslim cultural heritage, the image of a young woman in a fashionable summer dress symbolized the profound social transformation promoted under Soviet rule. By the 1970s, decades of campaigns for female education, employment, and public participation had fundamentally reshaped women's roles in Azerbaijani society. The confident, modern figure depicted in the poster embodies this official ideal of female emancipation, which reached its fullest visual expression during the 1970s and 1980s, when women were increasingly presented as active participants in the republic's economic and cultural life while remaining symbols of its national identity.

Price: $950.00