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October 1917-1920 Comrade! Triple your energy, through mortars, bristling bayonets! We celebrate the third anniversary of the October Revolution happily in bloody battle! [partial translation]

Poster Number: PP 305
Category: Revolution
Media Size: 29x21
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1920
Sources & Citation: Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 211, poster 679
Catalog Notes: PP 305 Revolution b
Artist: 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.
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Printer: 9th [Typolithopgraphy] Department of Gubpoligrafotdel (Provincial Department of Printing), [Saratov] — Губполиграфотдел 9-е отд. типо-литография, [Саратов]
The 9th Typolithopgraphy Department of Gubpoligrafotdel (Provincial Department of Printing) was located in Saratov, a province and a city in southeastern Russia. Initially, the printer was under the auspices of the Saratov GSNKh (Provincial Soviet of the National Economy), and between 1921-1922, it was placed under the Gubpoligrafprom state printing trust. Gubpoligrafprom was later reorganized into the Provincial Association of Enterprises. According to historian Alexander Alexandrovich Galagan in his work “Formation of the Komsomol pr...
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Publisher: State Publishing House, Saratov — Государственное издательство, Саратов
The State Publishing House had its origins in Imperial Russia as the Royal Print Yard in St. Petersburg. As the Red Army controlled more provinces and cities in former Imperial Russia, the State Publishing House developed offices outside St. Petersburg. Saratov is a city in southwestern Russia.
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