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Victory will win! We will achieve victory !

Poster Number: PP 913
Category: World War II
Poster Notes: Soldier’s notebook reads “My [body] count is 200 Fritzes” while the woman worker fulfilled 200% of the plan for ammunition round production
Media Size: 18 x 14.5
Poster Type: Offset
Publishing Date: 1943
Editorial Information: Editor E. Povolotskaia
Technical Information on Poster: [Approved] February 16, 1943; Publication No. 6041; Size 1/2 of a full sheet; Gosplanizdat [printing] order 131; price 35 kopeks
Glavlit Directory Number: L22586
Catalog Notes: PP 913 World War II b
Artist: Koretskii, Viktor Borisovich (Koretsky, Victor) — Корецкий, Виктор Борисович
Of the photomontage poster artists of the 20th century, Viktor Borisovich Koretskii stands out as one of the most iconic. His prolific career in the Soviet Union began in the 1930s and ended in the 1980s, and his unique artistic style influenced generations of graphic artists. From 1921 to 1929, Viktor Koretskii attended the Moscow Secondary School of Professional Art, and by 1931 he was working as a professional graphic designer. Koretskii perfected his own technique of photomontage ...
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Printer: Gosplanizdat, Moscow — Госпланиздат, Москва
Formed in 1921 as the state planning commission, Gosplan carried out a unified program for the Soviet economy and it coordinated state-run economic regions. Gosplan had its own publishing and printing departments. Its printing division, Gosplanizdat (State Publishing House of the Economic, Planning and Accounting and Statistical Literature of the State Planning Committee of the USSR), was formed in the 1940s.
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Publisher: Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House), Moscow-Leningrad — Искусство, Москва-Ленинград
Iskusstvo was the Art Publishing House (A.K.A. Visual Arts Publishing) that was created in 1936 from Ogiz-Izogiz (State Art and Literature Publishing House). It disseminated books and journals dealing with graphic design and the fine arts, and it issued numerous posters. Since the Iskusstvo banner was part of the State Printing Works in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, its two main offices were located in those two cities.
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