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Learn the Great Path of the Party of Lenin and Stalin!

Poster Number: PP 875
Poster Notes: The title of the book is "History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) – Short Course". This was a Stalinist text glorifying the leader and it was hand-edited by him. Introduced in 1938, it was repudiated in the 1950s.
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Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1952
Editorial Information: Editor V. Bespalova
Technical Information on Poster: Submitted December 3, 1951; Publication No. 9774; 2 full sheets; Order No...[illegible]
Glavlit Directory Number: A 09675
Catalog Notes: PP 875 Communist Culture b
Artist: Belopol'skii, Boris Naumovich — Белопольский, Борис Наумович
Boris Naumovich Belopol'skii was a multi-talented artist. While his chief concentration was in graphic art, Belopol'skii was also known as a painter and a monumentalist. A 1928 graduate of the Kharkov Art Institute, he lived in Kharkov until 1941 whereupon he moved to Moscow. During the 1930s the artist began designing posters. His artistic style incorporated photomontage and illustrative realism. Belopol’skii designed posters for Iskusstvo (Art) Publishing House whereby he generated a significant number of titles co...
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Printer: Leningrad Offset Printing Plant — Ленинградское Офсетная типография
The Leningrad Offset Printing Plant was located near Kronverkskaia and Mir Streets in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Historically, the printer had roots in Imperial Russia as a large operation founded in 1881 by Theodore Kibbel (Fedor Fyodorovich Kibbel') until it was nationalized by the Soviets in 1917. After its initial nationalization, the printer's management (via a series of government-controlled printing trusts) and its name both changed over the decades until it ultimately became the Leningrad Offset Printing Plant ...
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Publisher: Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House), Moscow-Leningrad — Искусство, Москва-Ленинград
Iskusstvo was the Art Publishing House (A.K.A. Visual Arts Publishing) that was created in 1936 from Ogiz-Izogiz (State Art and Literature Publishing House). It disseminated books and journals dealing with graphic design and the fine arts, and it issued numerous posters. Since the Iskusstvo banner was part of the State Printing Works in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, its two main offices were located in those two cities.
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