"More Bread for the Motherland!" (1964) by Sergey Sukhov and Konstantin Feodoridi was made during Khrushchev's Virgin Lands Campaign, the Soviet drive to turn the Kazakh steppe into a major grain-producing region. The campaign was under pressure by 1964, and posters like this were part of selling its promise.
A female worker stands at the top of a huge mound of grain, shovel in hand, set against simplified industrial architecture. The angle is steep — the viewer looks up at her, which makes the grain pile feel monumental rather than agricultural. Her light clothing stands out against both the sky and the grain beneath her, keeping the human figure visible against the scale of the harvest.
The colour is restrained for Soviet propaganda: sky blue, cream, and golden yellow, with the red Cyrillic text "РОДИНЕ БОЛЬШЕ ХЛЕБА!" cutting through the grain. The geometric architecture in the background is a deliberate contrast to the organic, piled mass of wheat in the foreground — order against abundance.
The poster fits the standard logic of Virgin Lands propaganda: agricultural labour reframed as both personal duty and national achievement, the individual worker standing in for the whole campaign.
Sukhov (1911–2003) graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1943 and worked at Kazakhfilm Studio in Alma-Ata. He was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR from 1946 and an Honoured Cultural Worker of the Kazakh SSR. Konstantin (b. 1947) trained primarily as a monumental sculptor, graduating from the Republican Art School named after Alimova in 1968; his major works include the "Friendship" stele (1978). Their work is held in the State Museum of Arts of Kazakhstan and the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia.
More Bread for the Motherland, 1964
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Offset lithograph on paper
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88 H x 54 W