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"Women Workers of the Universe are Fighting for Social Liberation against Imperialist Battles for the Protection of the USSR."
Attributed to artist Mikola Maloshtanov, this poster was issued in 1932 during the First Five-Year Plan, a transformative period of industrialization in the Soviet Union. During the plan, over 3 million women in the Soviet Union began to work in wage-earning positions with 1.7 million alone entering the industrial sector. Reportedly, by 1935, Soviet women constituted 42 percent of all industrial positions.
The economic plan also established social changes. New government programs aimed to "liberate women" by removing restrictions on marriage age, divorce and abortion. At the same time, older programs such as Zhenotdel, the women's department of the Communist Party that assisted female citizens to improve quality of life, rapidly closed once women were widely-added to payrolls.
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About The Collection
Poster Plakat is a private collection of Soviet and Eastern Bloc political ephemera spanning 1916 to 1991. The collection contains over 1,000 original posters and poster maquettes. Sizes range from windowpane posters up to large, multi-panel broadsides. Numerous artists are represented such as Gustav Klutsis, Victor Deni, Nikolai Dolgorukov, Vladimir Stenberg, the Kukryniksy, Viktor Koretsky, and hundreds more. All posters are linen backed and ready for display.
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