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The city of Lenin is the most literate city in the world. London – 95% literacy. Berlin – 99.45% literacy. Leningrad – 100% literacy.

Poster Number: PP 398
Poster Notes: This poster is on foamcore; [First banner] Warmest greeting to the Leningrad culture army the front line fighter for the cultural revolution; [Second banner] We have people coming from other locations in the Soviet Union, immediately arm them with literacy, increase cultural aid for the countryside; [Third banner] With total literacy support we will spread technical knowledge [and] fulfill the 5-year plan for Leningrad industry in three years; [Fourth banner] By the 14th anniversary of October we must become a country of total literacy.
Media Size: 55.5x38
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1931
Technical Information on Poster: Poster created by Kh.M. “Khudozhestvennye Masterskie”; [Printed at] 3 Mir Street
Catalog Notes: PP 398 Education & Literacy (foamcore)
Artist: Artist Studios (Kh.M.) — Художественные Мастерские (ХМ)
Kh.M. is the abbreviation for the State Free Artists' Studios (Khudozhestvenye Masterskie), a poster arts cooperative of Izogiz publishers. In 1930, Kh.M studios existed only in Moscow and Leningrad and it was turning out propaganda for the First Five-Year Plan and for the efforts of collectivization. The earliest poster works created by the cooperative thus reflect these two themes.  Team methods were used in the creation of each Kh.M poster.  In ...
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Printer: State Lithography Workshop named for M. Tomskii, Leningrad — Государственная литография им. М. Томского, Ленинград
The State Lithography Workshop named for M. Tomskii was located at Kronverkskaia and Mir Streets in Leningrad (Petrograd). The workshop was named in honor of Mikhail Pavlovich Tomskii (1880-1936), head of the Soviet trade union and the head of the State Publishing House. Historically, the large printing operation was founded in 1881 by Theodore Kibbel (Fedor Fyodorovich Kibbel). Shortly after the printer was nationalized by the Soviets, it became the 1st State Lithography Workshop, and in 1924 ...
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Publisher: IzoGiz (State Publishing House of Fine Art) — Изогиз (Государственное издательство изобразительного искусства)
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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