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Long live the great, unconquerable flag of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin! Long live Leninism! Workers of all countries, unite!

Poster Number: PP 224
Category: Stalin
Poster Notes: (On the banners) "The USSR is driving forward the brigade of the world proletariat!"
Media Size: 41x28.5
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1939
Editorial Information: Editor M. Ioffe; Technical Editor I. Kabanov
Technical Information on Poster: Iskusstvo No. 10014; Approved for printing December 28, 1938; Submitted for production January 2, 1939; Standard format 62 x 94; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Index R-10; Order No. 212; Price 70 kopeks
Glavlit Directory Number: B-58233
Catalog Notes: PP 224 Stalin b
Language: Multilingual
Artist: Moor (Orlov), Dmitrii Stakhievich — Моор (Орлов), Дмитрий Стахиевич
Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor (birth surname Orlov) was born into the family of a mining engineer and did not receive formal artistic education. After moving to Moscow in 1898, and between 1902 and 1906, he actively participated in the city’s revolutionary movement, specifically taking part in the failed 1905 Revolution. While working at the Anatolii Mamontov printing shop, he submitted his drawings to periodicals. In 1908, he began to publish his cartoons in satirical journals, namely in Budil'nik [Alarm Clock]. Wh...
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Artist: Sen'kin, (Senkin) Sergei Iakovlevich — Сенькин, Сергей Яковлевич
Sergei Iakovlevich Sen'kin worked as a painter and graphic designer from the early 1920s until the end of his life. Sen'kin began as a student at MUZhVS (Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture) just as Russia entered the First World War. His studies were interrupted when he served in the army until 1918. Following the war, Sen'kin again took-up his education and enrolled in SVOMAS (Free State Art Studios) where he met Gustav Klutsis. His ...
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Printer: Gudok Typography Workshop, Moscow — Типография Гудок, Москва
Gudok is the Russian word for whistle and it was also the name given to the railway industry newspaper in the Soviet Union. The newspaper's printing workshop was in Moscow at 7 Stankevich Street (formerly Voznesenskii Lane), a street named after Alexander Stankevich (1821-1912), the Russian writer, biographer and publisher. From the end of the nineteenth century until 1918, the location served as the printing house and editorial offices of the liberal newspaper "Russian News" (...
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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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