Purges posters & prints

The Trial of the Twenty-One, Moscow, USSR, 1938. Anonymous

Cotton Mather School American

Soviet power does not punish, it corrects (The slogan on the wall of the former Red Corner punishmen Anonymous

Rhamnus Catharticus; Purging Buckthorn Anonymous

Rhamnus Catharticus Purging Buckthorn Anonymous

Shock workers of GULAG Anonymous

Concert band of the Solovki prison camp Anonymous

Hot work will melt away your prison term!, ca 1935 Anonymous

The Moscow-Volga Canal is opened, 1937 Anonymous

Russian theatre directo Vsevolod Meyerhold and his wife, actress Zinaida Raikh, early 1920s Unknown

Portrait of the poet Bruno Jasienski, c. 1920 Anonymous

Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian actor, theatre director and producer, 1930s Anonymous

The Solovki prison camp (SLON), 1927-1928 Anonymous

Well uproot spies and diversionists of the Trotsky-Bukharinite agents of fascism!, 1937 Sergei Dmitrievich Igumnov

Portrait, 1933 Gustav Klutsis

Karl Julius Danishevsky, 1919 Anonymous

Karl Julius Danishevsky, ca 1917-1919 Anonymous

May Day on Lenins Mausoleum Tribune, 1953 Anonymous

Portrait of the stage producer Vsevolod Meyerhold, 1916 Boris Grigor'yev

Portrait of the poet Bruno Jasienski, 1923 Anonymous

The Priest and the Barber, with Don Quixote's house-keeper and niece, purging the Don's library of Books of Chivalry John Augustus Atkinson

The enemies of the Five Year Plan, 1929 Anonymous

The Cleansing of the Temple French School

Purgatory Anonymous

Nurse using a steriliser in the bathroom at Chaucer Cleansing Station, London, 1911 Unknown

Troops Expelling Settlers Anonymous

Sarah KaneÆs Cleansed at the Duke of York's Theatre Graham Brandon

City Scavengers Cleansing the London Streets of Impurities C Williams

Christ Cleansing the Temple, c.1655 Bernardino Mei

Athaliah Expelled from the Temple, c.1697 Antoine Coypel

Children on their way to Finch Street Cleansing Station, Stepney, London, 1911 Unknown

Nurse examining children before 'cleansing', Chaucer Cleansing Station, London, 1911 Unknown

Attendants bathing boys at the Central Street Cleansing Station, London, 1914 Unknown

The Purification of the Midianite Virgins Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto

Nurse cutting children's verminous hair, Finch Street Cleansing Station, London, 1911 Unknown

Soviet politician Sergei Kirov, 17th Congress of the Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, 1934 Anonymous