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Long live the union of workers and farmers, the base of soviet power!

Poster Number: PP 320
Category: Revolution
Poster Notes: Poster was produced for the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution.
Media Size: 38.5x26
Poster Type: Offset
Publishing Date: 1957
Editorial Information: Editor M. Sergeeva; Technical Editor M. Gammer
Technical Information on Poster: [Approved] February 19, 1957; Publication No. 1-389; Order No. 160; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Price 1 ruble
Glavlit Directory Number: Sh 01706
Catalog Notes: PP 320 Revolution
Artist: Kominarets (Komenarets), Igor Aleksandrovich — Коминарец (Коменарец), Игорь Александрович
Printer: Leningrad Offset Printing Plant — Ленинградское Офсетная типография
The Leningrad Offset Printing Plant was located near Kronverkskaia and Mir Streets in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Historically, the printer had roots in Imperial Russia as a large operation founded in 1881 by Theodore Kibbel (Fedor Fyodorovich Kibbel') until it was nationalized by the Soviets in 1917. After its initial nationalization, the printer's management (via a series of government-controlled printing trusts) and its name both changed over the decades until it ultimately became the Leningrad Offset Printing Plant ...
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Publisher: IzoGiz (State Publishing House of Fine Art), Moscow — Изогиз (Государственное издательство изобразительного искусства), Москва
The history of IzoGiz begins with the formation of Ogiz, the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. In 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz to centralize publishing under a monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, to streamline and control publishing production and its output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ordered certain ...
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