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Kulak Son of Kulak has a big, fat belly, his pig’s face is huge and, as it is supposed to be, with a beard like a shovel.  His house has expensive furnishings inside and during the revolution he was collecting various reparations from barons’ houses.  He stole a mirror from there that his pig’s face could not break.   [Partial translation]

Kulak Son of Kulak has a big, fat belly, his pig’s face is huge and, as it is supposed to be, with a beard like a shovel. His house has expensive furnishings inside and during the revolution he was collecting various reparations from barons’ houses. He stole a mirror from there that his pig’s face could not break. [Partial translation]

Poster Number: PP 406
Poster Notes: Poster text is from an anonymous author who signs their name, 'Bandurist'
Media Size: 29.5x26.5
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 456, poster 3007; Russian Revolutionary Posters by V. Polonskii (1925), page 124, poster 14
Catalog Notes: PP 406 Communist Culture
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: Lithography Workshop of M.G. Ravitskii, Kharkov — Литография М. Г. Равицкий, Харьков
Little published information is available on the Kharkov-based lithography workshop of M.G. Ravitskii. However, Ravitskii was likely a working artist before and during the Soviet-era. Published sources from the Soviet Union indicate Ravitskii had a printing business in Kiev. Beyond that, Ravitskii’s name appears as an artist in at least one 21st century Russian publication on graphic art during World War I.
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Publisher: All-Ukrainian State Publishing House — Всеукраинское издательство (Всеукриздат)
All-Ukrainian State Publishing House (Vseukrizdat) was founded in 1919 as the State Publishing House of Ukraine and its formation was based upon a directive by the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee. The publishing house had branches in the cities of Kharkov, Kiev, Volyn', Poltava and other locations in Ukraine. In 1920, the publisher was renamed All-Ukrainian State Publishing and in 1922, the publisher was renamed DVU (Derzhavne vydavnytstvo Ukrainy). DVU became the largest publisher in Soviet Ukraine and the ...
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