PP 1188 | Poster Plakat

To the peasant and the worker. [Partial translation]

**Número de Cartel:** PP 1188

**Información sobre el cartel:** [Top of poster] "Workers of the world, unite!"; URSR (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic); poster text by N. Merik.

**Tamaño:** 19x30

**Tipo de cartel:** Litografía

**Fecha de publicación:** 1919

**Información técnica:** Poster indicates it was issued by Narkomzem of Kiev.

**Ediciones:** 30,000

**Fuentes:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B.S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 160, poster 225

**En el catologo:** PP 1188 Agriculture b

**Región de la URSS:** RSS de Ucrania

**Idioma:** Ucraniano

Artista: Artist Unknown — неизвестный художник

The artist's name on the poster is not indicated. By assigning Artist Unknown to a poster it also could mean the artist used a chop mark whereby no signature is seen thus rendering the artist's identity anonymous.

Imprenta: Typolithography Workshop of A.O. Shterenzon, Kiev — Типолитография А. О. Штерензонь, Киев

According to published sources from Imperial Russia, the printing shop of A.O. Shterenzon was in business from 1901 until at least 1915. While very little information is available on the history of the printer, Soviet-era sources from the mid-1920s note that the printer was based in the towns of Kiev and Zhitomir.

Editorial: Narkomzem (People's Commissariat of Agriculture), RSFSR — Наркомзем (Народный комиссариат земледелия), РСФСР

The People's Commissariat for Agriculture (Narkomzem) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) was established in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in October 1917. Its headquarters later moved to 1 Orlikov Way in Moscow. Narkomzem was managed at the republic level and was therefore considered a lower-status administration. In 1929-‘30, the All-Union Narkomzem was created and the commissariat’s status was elevated. While Narkomzem played an important role in the socialist transformation of agriculture in the USSR, it did ...

To the peasant and the worker. [Partial translation]