Time is running out if you still haven’t checked out the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s Soviet poster exhibition, which is drawing to a close this weekend.

Among those on display is Gustav Klutsis, a pioneering, Latvian-born artist renowned for the use of montage techniques. Klutsis’s work has caught the attention of Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian Nicholas Kupensky, who recently delivered a gallery talk looking at three of his works in particular.

It’s important to consider the posters, created in 1930 and 1931, in their precise historical context, said Kupensky. With the political revolution over, it was now time for an industrial revolution. Revolutionary leader Lenin had died in 1924 and his successor, General Secretary Joseph Stalin in 1928 started his first Five-Year Plan to build up the Soviet economy.