Daily LIFT #1689

After the Civil War, sculpture, USSR 1950s, L. Sabaneyev -- Daily LIFT #1689

From the Soviet Press: "Labor as theme is also vividly developed in work by Soviet sculptors. Sabaneyev's small figure After the Civil War takes us back to the early twenties. A Red Army man , still in military tunic , wields a pick. It is the demobilized people's army working to rebuild their war ravaged country. There is great power in the pose, the turn of the head, the grip of the strong hands on the weapon of peace which has replaced the weapon of war."