38,000,000 Escaped - 10,000,000 Died
- Title:
- 38,000,000 Escaped - 10,000,000 Died
- Alternate Title:
- 38,000,000 Escaped - 10,000,000 Died
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Means, Elliott Anderson
- Other Creators:
- Russia War Relief, Inc., publisher
- Date:
- 1943
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 2249.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2249_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1940 - 1959
- Subject:
- World War II
Pictorial
Unusual Projection
Other Moral & Social - Measurement:
- 44 x 66 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- An unusual map supporting the fundraising efforts of Russian War Relief, Inc., an organization established after the Nazi invasion of Russia in 1941 to help the millions of refugees displaced within Russia by the invasion. The map of Russia has been reversed ("to compare the industrial west of Russia with the similar eastern area of the United States"): the Ukraine covers the eastern U.S., Moscow is near Detroit, and the Causcasus are in Oklahoma. The areas in grey were "occupied by the Nazis at the peak of the invasion." The capitol in Washington is burning, and the Nazi flag flies atop the Empire State Building. Other highlighted areas represent "giant industrial and agricultural communities" relocated to remote areas of Russia, e.g., Novosibirsk (Boise), Omsk (Salt Lake City) and Tashkent (Phoenix).
The map is undated, but because the text below the map says that "some of the survivors now are returning to homes recaptured by the Red Army," this map was probably produced after the Soviet victory at Stalingrad in 1943. The artist Elliott Anderson Means was raised in Texas, became an itinerant sign and mural painter in California, then studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. He settled in New York, where he was a WPA artist in the 1930s; he created at least one other poster for Russian War Relief, "Help Put Him Back in Our Fight."
For other examples of cartographic posters addressing refugee problems, see ID #2029.01, Save the Survivors (1929) and ID #2229.01, World Refugees (1979).
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Repository:
- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.