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Poster Plakat

Russian Civil War

PP 002: Workers of the world, unite! Long live the Polish Socialist Republic! Free Poland and workers of the Polish nation! PP 007: The nations of the world welcome the Red Army of labor. RSFSR -- Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic PP 009: Parasites and do-nothings, whoever doesn't work for themselves disturbs the work of others. [Partial translation] PP 010: 1871 – French bourgeoisie take brutal revenge on commoners. 1921 – Proletariat tears away the last black rags of capitalist lies! PP 011: Тen commandments of the proletariat. Labor - the beginning of life. Labor - the light of a warm day. [Partial translation] PP 015: Long live the three-million-man Red Army!! PP 017: Comrades, all together to the Urals! Death to Kolchak and to the followers of the Tsar and capitalism. PP 022: The sword drawn by the entente against the Russian Revolution will pierce the heart of world bourgeoisie! Workers of all countries, unite! PP 023: New land laws of the Soviets in Ukraine. 1. How it was during the time of the wealthy and the capitalists. Land of the Ruling Class verses Land of the Peasantry. 2. How it is under Soviet rule. All land to the peasantry. PP 024: Workers and farmers! Enlist in the Red Army. Forward to liberate Bessarabia! PP 025: The first anniversary of the Red Army 1918-1919. "I am a farmer, the son of a worker, and I will be a soldier of the Red Army as long as I can hold a gun in my hands, against the hatred of the enemies of the workers." [Partial translation] PP 026: “Deserter, give me your hand. You are the same destroyer of the worker-farmer state as I am, the capitalist! Now you are my only hope.” PP 031: Long live the regiments of workers! PP 034: 1916, 1917, 1918… [years indicating the increasing numbers of deserters] – What used to happen to deserters. Breaking the vicious circle. [Partial translation] PP 038: To the beacon of the Communist International. Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic PP 042: October 25, 1917 -- November 7, 1920 Farmer, you used to work for a landlord! Now the land belongs to the working people! All Power to the Soviets! [Partial translation] PP 045: Farmer-Exploiter, Bandit and the Red Army. [Poem verses] Mitka Kunda, the company coward, Escaped in secret from the front line, Returned to his village, and showed up as a Surprise guest of some of the village’s wealthy men. The news spread through the village That Kunda came back from the front line! [Partial translation] PP 047: Universal military training [Vseobuch] is the key to victory. Comrade! You must handle your gun as well as you handle your scythe! PP 048: A wounded Red Army soldier will find a mother and sister in every laboring woman. PP 053: Entente under the Mask of Peace PP 054: 1st May PP 056: May 1 [Karl Marx wrote] "Workers have nothing to lose but they have the whole world to gain". PP 057: Sons of the bourgeoisie used to study here. Workers and Farmers, now you attend. PP 091: Long Live the Third Communist International! PP 105: May 1st All-Russian Subbotnik [Top of poster] Russian Socialist Federation of the Soviet Republic. Workers Of All Countries Unite! PP 115: August 1st Demonstration. Liberate [André] Marty and all our imprisoned men. Down with the Fascist Social Insurance law. United Front of the Exploited Against the Imperialist War. Por Defense of the USSR. PP 125: Kazak, which side are you on? Ours or theirs? PP 126: A book is nothing else but a man addressing the public. PP 127: What have you done for the front? PP 129: The Working Red Army PP 131: Workers of the world, unite! PP 132: [Upper panel] RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) Workers of all Countries, Unite! [Lower panel] Workers of all Countries, Unite! [Partial translation] PP 143: Worker-Farmer Youth go to Officers' Command Training. Officers' Command Training gives education: basic military and political training. Comrade Red Army Soldiers! Comrade Workers! Comrade Farmers! [Partial translation] PP 144: Red Army soldier, take care of your rifle; it's your loyal and reliable friend! PP 241: Young proletariat of the country and the city, unite! PP 247: Kick the [Polish] Landlord out of Ukraine! PP 252: From Small Troops of Partisans to Mighty Red Divisions PP 257: The Ukrainian Red Army is liberating its people! PP 258: 25th October PP 259: Worker and peasant-farmer! You took up a rifle – now learn to use it! PP 260: Did you fulfill your food donation quota? Bad things are coming into our fatherland! The starving Tsar is hurrying to aid Polish landlords and second-rate bastard generals who are followers of Wrangel! [Partial translation] PP 261: Central People’s Publishing PP 262: This is how Denikin finishes off workers. The Deserter cries: “All of this is my fault.” PP 304: What the October Revolution gave to the woman worker and woman farmer. PP 305: October 1917-1920 Comrade! Triple your energy, through mortars, bristling bayonets! We celebrate the third anniversary of the October Revolution happily in bloody battle! [partial translation] PP 313: The truth of a peasant is tricky, but the truth of a landlord bends in every direction. PP 322: Death to the stranglers and oppressors of workers and peasants! Battle for the Volga [and] Battle for bread for the starving! PP 323: Workers won power in Russia. Workers will win power in the whole world. Long live Worldwide October! PP 325: Long live the worldwide revolution! Workers of all countries, unite!  PP 335: The deserter is working for the Tsar’s generals and the capitalists PP 358: The work of the back line is the victory of the front line. "Our country won a victory over Wrangel not only by the courage of the Red soldiers but by the work of the Red back lines." [Partial translation] PP 377: Soldier, you are shedding your blood for the Revolution of workers and peasants. Workers and peasants are taking away necessities from themselves and giving you clothes and shoes from their last possessions. Save them! PP 378: The Second Anniversary of the Red Army. PP 382: The Red Plowman PP 401: On the main square some days ago were three aces –a landlord without land, a manufacturer without a factory, a bank predator sitting without income – [Partial translation] PP 402: [Top panel] Away With Evil-Doers! [Bottom panel] Come with us! PP 404: Long live the Communist Volunteer Day of May 1st! 1-May-20 PP 406: Kulak Son of Kulak has a big, fat belly, his pig’s face is huge and, as it is supposed to be, with a beard like a shovel. His house has expensive furnishings inside and during the revolution he was collecting various reparations from barons’ houses. [Partial translation] PP 408: Divide this cut of bread in half! Donate portions of food for the use of those who are starving. PP 409: The landlords threaten to manacle with the chains of slavery our free labor… Strike back more strongly with calloused hands! Go to the west front soldiers of labor! PP 410: Shame on those who with false face under the cover of religion do not save these children with the gold of the Church. PP 412: If you want to rebuild your houses, come to the Housing Union. The Housing Union is located at 12 Tolmachov Street formerly Bolshaia Karavannaia Street. All inquiries between 10:00 and 4:00. PP 413: Miner, Be Aware! PP 415: Hungry Laborer! Know that the proletariat of the whole world is speeding to you with help! PP 416: Only a close and unbreakable union of workers and peasants will save Russia from economic destruction and starvation. Workers: Give the country agricultural machines to increase production of bread for the republic – [Partial translation] PP 417: Arise workers and slaves of the world marked with the accursed brand our mind has revolted and is seething and ready to enter into mortal combat. [From the revolutionary hymn “Arise Workers and Slaves”] PP 418: To “The Week of the Front” The shortest way to peace is our resolute victory. Everything for the front, everything for victory! PP 420: The kulak is hiding seeds from the Soviet authorities. Poor man! Find them for yourself and for the state. PP 421: Poor Peasant! Citizens of Poltava will fulfill the remainder of the reduced requisition. The Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic is placing all hope on you. You can overcome everything to fulfill requisitions sent to Poltava so city workers won’t starve. Grab the kurkul [kulak] by the neck! Let him give us the surplus he's holding back, don’t let him put his bread to rot under the earth while workers are starving! PP 422: By what means can you help the starving?!! 1. Peasants of high producing regions! Immediately return seed loaned in years 1920 and 1921! Immediately return to storage points seed for the starving people along the Volga River! 2. Give an example to others by quickly fulfilling your obligation! 3. All seed given back or donated will be immediately sent for winter planting in the starving Volga region. PP 427: [Top panel] We were successful against the tsar, we were successful against the landlords and the moneybags, we were successful against Kolchak and Denikin. [Bottom panel] How can we not be successful with steam locomotives! PP 428: Only the Red Army will give us bread. [First panel] Denikin entered Kharkov, Ekaterinoslav and Moscow, Petrograd has no bread. [Second panel] The Red Army is advancing, there is more bread in Soviet Russia. PP 430: Comrade, attend the Military-Industry course! Once you have studied the proper procedures, you will not only save people’s property but you will also ensure the victory of the Red Army. Enrollment at 49 Aleksandrovskaia Street. PP 431: Women Workers and Women Peasants! Go for cooperation. Fulfill the precept of Il’iich [Lenin] Strengthen Cooperation! Cooperation is the way to liberation for women workers and women peasants. The properly oriented woman worker and woman peasant should be a member of a cooperative. PP 432: Everybody To Work. Every stroke of the mallet will lessen economic damage. PP 437: For Red Petrograd! For Red Finland! PP 440: Curses, curses on Polish landlords! Death and shame on perpetrators of violence! Comrades-brothers, hurry and take up your rifles to launch the last counter-attack against them! [Partial translation] PP 441: Only the Red Army will give your homes and villages peace forever. Therefore, peasant, join your Worker–Peasant Army! PP 442: 1917-1920 Worker and Peasant! Protect the gains of the October Revolution: your gains. PP 444: [Top margin left] D.V.R. (Far Eastern Republic) [Top margin right] PP 450: [Top, inside scroll] Why we need Donetsk [Donbass] Basin [Inside small scroll below solder] Coalfields surrounding Donetsk should be ours! Red Army soldiers to Arms! Workers and Peasants to Arms! Crush the bands of the tsar's general Denikin who, for the benefit of kulaks and landlords, wants to put revolutionary peasants and workers to death. [Partial translation] PP 456: May 1st Long live the international holiday of workers, May 1st ! Long live the World Proletarian Union of the Communist International! PP 461: You, too, take your place! PP 462: The Red Soldier at the front is without a uniform and boots. Open your storage trunks. Open all you can, for your defender. He will not withstand,- and you too will die. To the aid of the Red Army! PP 466: Peasant, give your weapons to a Red Army soldier! He will protect your possessions and your land better than you PP 468: The Workers’ Club is the Hearth of Revolutionary Thought. [Bottom left] Club Section of the Extramural Department of the Commissariat of Public Education. PP 469: Russia, to the aid of the Donetsk miner! [Between train tracks] Comrade workers of all Russia and you aware and honest peasants! Direct your gaze in the direction of the Donetsk coal deposits. If you help him, he will give you more in return. In exchange for bread, clothes and shoes the Donetsk proletariat will give you their valued coal, which will heat, light and revive the whole country. Soviet Russia, to the aid of the Donetsk miner! (From an article by Lev Trotskii) PP 470: [Top text] Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution [Lower left panel] Four Years! The end of enmity and rage in the Republic of Labor the worker and the grain-grower are in unity forever. [Partial translation] PP 471: The Red Army is bringing liberation to the oppressed of the whole world PP 473: Non-Members! Capitalists of the whole world want to hang the worker class. Don’t sit on the sidelines. Enroll in the Russian Communist Party to defeat the enemies of the proletariat with united forces. PP 474: Every blow of the mallet is a blow against the enemy! PP 544: The war of Capital destroys-Labor rebuilds PP 549: Smoke from smokestacks is the breath of soviet Russia PP 562: A deserter never arrives alone: He hauls the Old Regime with him everywhere he goes. Struggle against desertion as [you would] against the bitterest enemy. PP 576: How to make calico from bread? [Partial translation] PP 591: "Get out of my way!" PP 592: Woe to the capitalist, we will drive him into the Black Sea PP 613: Day of the Wounded Red Army Soldier PP 614: Cooperation Knows No Border Posts PP 626: The worker appeared and won а victory. Now in the economic and political struggle against the bourgeoisie he needs to conquer knowledge and art. PP 632: With our weapons we finished off our enemy by means of our labor we will get bread. Everyone to work, comrades! PP 634: Workers to arms! You are needed for the Red Army PP 636: Comrades, rifles and hammers celebrate Red October PP 637: October 1917 – October 1920 Long live an all world wide Red October PP 638: Railway worker, keep guard over the Red Railway PP 668: To volunteer Saturday! All-Russia volunteer Saturday is the way to the revival of water transport PP 669: Citizens! Give over your weapon, it is needed on the front. PP 677: Everything for the miner! Our bayonet is as sharp as it used to be. The worker’s pick is ready. The Red Army man and the miner –base of the flaming soviets. The vermin ran away squealing And kept running faster and faster. Now it’s time to stick the pick Into the black rock of the Donbass. [Partial translation] PP 682: Rush to give a hard beating to the Polish landlord! PP 684: Women Workers, take-up your rifles! PP 694: Down with capital, long live the dictatorship of the proletariat! 1917 October 25th (November 7) 1920 PP 700: The fight of the red knight with the dark force PP 704: Away with negligence, dissoluteness, indifference and a negligent relationship to your gear!... PP 708: A Red Gift to the White Pan, bash him in the forehead with this little suitcase! PP 717: If the Red Flag appears, if people reach enlightenment, this is thanks to the Red Army soldier – the first support of the Soviet. PP 722: May 1st. Old waver of victory banners,
 faithful signalman of all the poor, locksmith of the fiery keys
 to the world-wide doors of the commune, a grandfather of freedom, forever young, a forger of battle-ready swords. [Partial translation] PP 747: Wrangel’ is still alive. Finish him off without mercy. PP 748: Manifest. All power to landlords and capitalists!!! For workers and peasants – the lash!!! PP 755: Trade Unions — Builders of Communism! PP 756: Holiday of the anniversary of the Red Army. February 23, 1919. Day of the Red Gift. Believe! Believe victoriously and joyfully in the celebration of the red feast! And you will enter the promised, radiant door of a new world. [Partial translation] PP 757: Women workers and women peasants, hurry to the training courses for Red Nurses and Nurses Orderlies! Help the Red Soldier at the front! Bring aid to the sick in the country! Go to infirmaries and hospitals. PP 758: On the eve of the Worldwide Revolution. PP 763: A book is the life of our time. A book is a flying carpet which takes you up and flies over the whole world with you. -Belinskii. PP 764: Reading is one of the duties of a person PP 766: We will show the world a new way – the world Tsar will be labor. PP 776: Proletariats of the country and of the city, unite! Peasant and Worker! In the same way as in this picture, join hands with each other and make an alliance of brothers, swear together this union of brothers will strongly support each other. [Partial translation] PP 782: The deserter on the labor front is breaking the back of the Red Army! The deserter on the labor front is a traitor to workers and peasants! Don’t hide, don’t spare the deserter! PP 783: Homemaker! Remember, by your participation in the corner store commission you are improving the work of the cooperative. PP 784: The labor deserter that repented. Published in newspapers of the Ural Region is a testimonial letter from a labor deserter, Simion Loshkin, citizen of the village of Liudovnichi. [Partial translation] PP 787: What the republic has given as top priority to the starving Siberian region. [Partial translation] PP 788: Only children of capitalists were admitted to bourgeois schools… They and only they always had their tasty breakfast. The United School of Labor has opened wide its doors to all little citizens of Soviet Russia. [Partial translation] PP 789: Maintenance, cleaning and disassembly of the 1891 issue rifle. [Partial translation] PP 792: Organize Country Houses of Reading. Learning is Light. Ignorance is Darkness. Knowledge is Power. [Partial translation] PP 793: Organize Country Houses of Reading. [Partial translation] PP 795: Mit’ka – The Runaway. First scene: Brave Mit'ka the runaway, The example of a hero, Finally chose the time, To run away from the front line. Second scene: He ran all day. Night fell. Wind was blowing strongly. Mit'ka would like to find Shelter for the night. “Auntie! I’m running from the front line…I’m so tired…” “And where is your rifle?” “In the snow…I lost it running!” [Partial translation] PP 804: Down with ignorance and backwardness! [Panel 1]: Krasnoarmeets! The illiterate are fooled by priests, dukes and other dark forces without even noticing it. [Panel 2]: But no force can be your master if you are educated and knowledgeable. PP 808: Where a Troika went down, a Pair will not make do. PP 811: Towards the 4th Anniversary — Every year we celebrate the memory of the heroes that fell in the cause of October PP 820: Get out of the way! Priests are aiding capitalists and hindering the worker. [Partial translation] PP 842: To All State Organizations and Management Committees The Directorate of Yaroslavl's Typography G.S.N.Kh. is accepting various orders for these jobs – typography, lithography, binding and lined papers. Newspaper, magazine, brochure, art poster, diagram, label, blueprint, map printing. [Bottom] After a three year hiatus the Directorate of Yaroslavl’ State Typography has launched a Department of Lithography. Yaroslavl’, 75 Respublikanskaia Street, Telephone 42. PP 846: The Red Army has gained land and freedom. If you do not want the return of the lords, help it become stronger! Join your Worker–Peasant Army! PP 851: What working Moscow has done during the week of the Red Army soldier. All attention to the details of Red Army life! [Partial translation] PP 866: Cossack, Your Only Path is with Laboring Russia. [Partial translation] PP 867: Listen, comrade peasant! In your hands is the better future for all working people. You have the bread. The cities are now ruled by the worker, a working person the same as you. Amid the cold and the hunger, he has only one thought – to beat back all enemies [Partial translation] PP 868: Cossack! They are pushing you into terrible, bloody deeds against the working people. Cossack! Turn your horse around and strike down your real enemy, the parasite. PP 914: To the Aid of Pans! [Polish landlords] The Last Reserves of Marshal Foch PP 915: The life of the literate. There lived an illiterate peasant. He did not read clever books. Life led him nearly to tears, Every day everything was a bad break! Every day he toiled for nothing, Life carried him along, like a blind person! He could not read a page, About how to plow his land. And his labor brought In very scanty crops! [Partial translation] PP 916: [Left side] Universal Military Training, 1918 -- [Right side] Universal Military Training, 1919–1920 PP 922: Bravely, comrades, in step! We will strengthen our souls in the struggle, The way to the kingdom of freedom We will make for ourselves. We have all emerged from the people, Children of the family of labor! [Partial translation] PP 923: Long Live the October Revolution! Remembering Red October,... [Partial translation] PP 927: Truth against the powers. We struggle against evil. PP 928: The Red Plowman. Languishing in slavery, Red Plowman, You were ruled by the tsars, But you overthrow them with your powerful arms And ventured into the field before dawn. Applying yourself with powerful arms And, where you poured out your blood, Where slavery reigned for centuries, You plow the unbroken virgin soil. [Partial translation] PP 929: The Final Hour PP 956: Everything you give is mended for the Red Army PP 957: May 1, 1921 Exhibition of the Petrograd Provincial Department of Education [in the] Building of the Main Stock Exchange, No. 1 Tuchkov Embankment. PP 971: The bayonet, the plow, and the sledgehammer will defeat the tsars and hunger. PP 972: The illiterate is just like the blind – misfortune and bad luck awaits him everywhere. PP 984: Long live the Proletarian Holiday of the First of May PP 998: Where Wrangel’ misplaces the bread PP 999: Knowledge will break the chains of slavery. PP 1000: The Red Army is the defense of the proletarian revolution. PP 1001: For the Red Army there are no barriers! PP 1002: Deserter Thinks: “I’ll show them my heels! Even if they find me, I’ll hide away somehow. I’m sick of this war stuff!” White General: “Stop! Where are you going? Don’t want to fight? March against the reds, you’ll do some fighting for me, I’ll make use of rogues like you!” PP 1004: Join the Ranks of the Red Army. [Partial translation] PP 1005: Tighten all forces and chop-off the counter-revolution of the remaining head. [Alexandr] Kolchak, [Nikolai] Iudenich, [Anton] Denikin, [Simon] Petliura [are all] destroyed. PP 1009: Use of funds received through USSR state loans. [Top Image]: For collectivization of agriculture
. For education. For industry. For public-health services. [Bottom image]: In the Tsarist era [everything was] For religion. For the police. 
For the army
. For prisons. 
For debt repayment. PP 1015: Go to [the aid of] the Donbass! PP 1016: Long Live Soviet Power! The route to happiness of the laborers is via the soviets, led by the Communist Party! PP 1017: Cooperation with the whole world in the struggle with capital. Long live international day of cooperation! PP 1019: To Arms! PP 1050: Five Years of MOPR PP 1053: Help to the Starving. PP 1081: Peasant! Support the Red Army soldier with bread. He fights for you. The Red Army soldier will return to the factory and [manufacturing] plant and will make for you everything you require. PP 1082: Devastation and the Army of Labor. Panel 1). The emblem of bondage has been smashed by the hand of the proletariat yet a shadow still surrounded the Soviet emblem. The DEVASTATION is frightening, and with the legacies of tsarist rule, a fierce fight remains in front of us still. Panel 2). Its offspring are savage COLD and HUNGER, and creeping PESTILENCE feeds on us among the filth. [Partial translation] PP 1113: Work conditions at the Donbas mine. [Partial translation] PP 1114: A great battle is coming. A decisive battle is approaching. All of Europe is full of clamor from voices of proletarians indignant and eager to struggle. Underground shocks are coming from different parts of our planet. In a thunderstorm and storm, in blood and tears, in hunger and eternal suffering [comes] a new world, a shining world of communism, a universal brotherhood born of working people. [Partial translation] PP 1127: Make suggestions!!! Comrades! Every one of you knows your work better than any other, every one of you knows the shortcomings, misconceptions, and difficulties you encounter, and knows how to remedy them. [Partial translation] PP 1133: Electricity in the Village PP 1139: Workers and peasants, learn to manage your state! PP 1141: Drive out the kulaks – Elect poor and middle peasants to the councils. [Panel 1 reads]: PP 1142: Water transport workers – prepare ships for the front! PP 1143: Against Redistribution! [Partial translation] PP 1167: The artel leads to good - [go] not a step without the artel! [Partial translation] PP 1171: Young proletarians to Enlightenment and Knowledge! [Partial translation] PP 1172: It will not be like this anymore. [First panel of text]: There lived a capitalist, and henchmen around him - he helped rob honest working people. The first henchman is an official. He wrote laws. According to these laws, he deftly wrote that everything was for the wealthy: land, bread, and all kinds of food, but nothing for the worker. [Partial translation] PP 1173: Song of Labor [Partial translation] PP 1174: Comrades peasants and workers! Protect our bread from [General] Denikin's locusts. Remember, comrades, only with a rifle in hand will we be able to defend the harvest! PP 1176: Who dwells in the palace? [Partial translation] PP 1199: Literacy is the Path to Communism. PP 1200: Proletarians! You were not afraid of heavy weapons. Do not be afraid of hard work! Labor will build a working country. PP 1201: May 1st PP 1202: Happy New Year PP 1232: [Pending translation (Без Перевода)]
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