PP 1004 | Poster Plakat

Join the Ranks of the Red Army. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 1004

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:** (Top right margin) "Workers of the world, unite!"

**Media Size:** 37.5x28

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1920

**Technical Information on Poster:** September 1920, Kiev, No. 1 [taken from printing stamp of poster]; 1641-1 [printing number]

**Print Run:** 10,000

**Sources & Citation:** Belichko, U.V., & Kilesso, S. K. (1987). *Mistetstvo narodzhene zhovtnem: Ukrainsʹke radiansʹke obrazotvorche mystetstvo ta arkhitektura 1917-1987.* Kyïv: Mystetstvo.

**Catalog Notes:** PP 1004 Civil War c

**Language:** Polish

Artist: Silkin, Boris Vasil’evich — Силкин, Борис Васильевич

Limited biographical information is available on Boris Vasil’evich Silkin. Most likely, he designed propaganda posters for the Bolsheviks for a limited period from 1919 to 1920. During that period, he joined the Kiev-based trade union Tvorchestvo (in existence in 1918), and into the 1920s Silkin exhibited his work in Kiev. The 1983 edition of Sovetskaia grafika indicates that Silkin was a founding member of the Society of Artists in Kiev (1918), and in 1920, he was listed as an artist wi...

Join the Ranks of the Red Army. [Partial translation]