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[At top, inside scroll] Why we need the Donetsk Basin
[Inside small scroll below just solder with red flag]  
The 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 to death by starvation the revolutionary peasants and workers.
[Partial translation]

[At top, inside scroll] Why we need the Donetsk Basin [Inside small scroll below just solder with red flag] The 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 to death by starvation the revolutionary peasants and workers. [Partial translation]

Poster Number: PP 450
Category: Civil War
Poster Notes: [Under the scroll] coal and iron.
Media Size: 32.5x23.5
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: c.1918
Sources & Citation: Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 357, poster 2141
Catalog Notes: PP 450 Civil War
Artist: Apsit, Aleksandr Petrovich (Apsītis, Aleksandrs) — Апситис, Александр Петрович
Alexandr Petrovich Apsit grew up amidst dire poverty and yet he received free instruction under the tutelage of the Saint-Petersburg painter, Lev Dmitriev-Kavkazskii.  By 1902, Apsit was noticed by the popular journals, including Rodina [Motherland], Zvezda [Star], and Niva, for which he produced sketches. He also illustrated the publications of writings by A.M. Gorkii, N.S. Leskov, and A.P. Chekhov, as well as those by D. Bedny, I.S. Nikritin, and M.E. S...
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Publisher: Litizdat (Literary and Publishing Department of the Political Directorate of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic) — Литиздат
Litizdat (Literaturno-izdatel'skii otdel politicheskogo upravleniia RVSR) was established in June 1919 by order of the Department of the Political Directorate (PUR) of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic (RVSR). A formal decree approved its existence in October that year. Due to the hierarchy of Litizdat's formation, its title is often abbreviated as Litizdat PUR RVSR on publications it issued. As the main publishing arm for the Red Army and the Red Navy, Litizdat distributed a ...
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