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Everybody to the reelections. Let’s strengthen the Soviets, the organs of the dictatorship of the proletariat

Poster Number: PP 664
Category: Events
Poster Notes: This poster is framed.
Media Size: 43x31
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1930
Technical Information on Poster: Izogiz No. 244; P. 36
Glavlit Directory Number: M72497. Lenoblastlit, regional section of Glavlit in Leningrad
Catalog Notes: PP 664 Events (framed)
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: Printer not indicated —
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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