1919 --- "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge". A Soviet propaganda lithograph poster produced in 1919 by Eliezer Markovich Lissitzky. In the poster, the red wedge symbolises the Bolsheviks, who are penetrating and defeating their opponents, the Whites, during the Russian Civil War. The was was frequently referred to as the War of Intervention. It involved both the Cossacks and external powers: Britain, France and the U.S. --- Image by © Michael Nicholson/Corbis