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Komsomol, to the ranks of MOPR

Poster Number: PP 1054
Category: Youth
Poster Notes: [On flag]: For the international education of the masses
Media Size: 29x22
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1930
Technical Information on Poster: Poster No. 48; Rabochee Delo Telephone 2-04-85 and 4-90-69; Prize 15 kopeks
Glavlit Directory Number: 2338. Gublit, provincial section of Glavlit
Catalog Notes: PP 1054 Youth
Artist: Ged..., F. (illegible) — Гед ..., Ф. (неразборчивое имя)
This artist's signature, associated with the poster in the Collection, is illegible. It is possible the artist's surname was Gedman however this is only a tacit surmisation.
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Printer: Mospoligraf (Moscow Polygraphic) 15th Lithography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Mashistov) — 15-я Литография «Мосполиграф», Москва (бывш. Машистова)
The Mospoligraf 15th Lithography Workshop was located at 23 Bol'shaia Sadovaia Street in Moscow. Its history begins with Ivan Mikhailovich Mashistov (1851-1914) the founder and managing director of Mashistov Typolithography Partnership. His firm printed magazines, historical books, and during the First World War, it printed and published patriotic posters. Under the Soviets, Mashistov Lithography was nationalized and it became the 15th Lithographic Workshop. In 1921, when the Soviet Union consolidated its largest and best printing operations into ...
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Publisher: MOPR (International Organization for Aid to the Fighters of the Revolution) — МОПР
The International Organization for Aid to the Fighters of the Revolution (Mezhdunarodnaia Organizatsiia Pomoshchi Revoliutsioneram, MOPR) was popularly known as International Red Aid. It was a subsidiary of the Communist International and had offices around the world. In the U.S., MOPR operated under the name International Labor Defense (ILD). The ILD formed in Chicago in 1925 and was associated with the Workers' party. In 1947, the ILD merged with the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties forming ...
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