The Russian Civil War through Bolshevik Eyes This Bolshevik poster from 1921, titled “Electrification and Counterrevolution,” presents a communist view of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. It shows a worker bringing electricity and more generally the light of modernity and progress to a backward country, while depicting their opponents, which include a priest, a general, and a businessman, as seeking to extinguish that light. (The New York Public Library/Art Resource, NY)