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Move forward with collectivization of the countryside, with the liquidation of the kulaks! As a class!
[Bottom text] He is a tractor driver of a military school and he is not lacking as a surveyor:
The young Red Army Man sweeps away boundaries and fences! 
[Partial translation]

Move forward with collectivization of the countryside, with the liquidation of the kulaks! As a class! [Bottom text] He is a tractor driver of a military school and he is not lacking as a surveyor: The young Red Army Man sweeps away boundaries and fences! [Partial translation]

Poster Number: PP 423
Category: Agriculture
Poster Notes: Verses on this poster are by the Soviet poet and satirist Dem'ian Bedny (Yefim Pridvorov)
Media Size: 32x24
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: c.1930
Technical Information on Poster: Produced by 2nd O.Kh.R. [Association of Realist Artists]; Publication 23; Price 15 kopeks.
Catalog Notes: PP 423 Agriculture b
Artist: OKhR (Association of Realist Artists) — ОХР (Объединение художников — реалистов)
OKhR (Association of Realist Artists) was founded in 1927 by a group of disgruntled artists that resigned from the Association of Artists of the Revolution (AKhR). The formation of the breakaway group was spearheaded by artists Nikolai Kasatkin, Sergei Maliutin, and others. OKhR maintained clubs in Moscow (at 23 Bolshoi Amitrovka Street) and in Leningrad (at 26 25th October Avenue). Its members tried to expand the Association throughout the Soviet Union but their efforts never materialized due to ...
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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: OKhR (Association of Realist Artists) — ОХР (Объединение художников — реалистов)
OKhR (Association of Realist Artists) was founded in 1927 by a group of disgruntled artists that resigned from the Association of Artists of the Revolution (AKhR). OKhR maintained clubs in Moscow (at 23 Bolshoi Amitrovka Street) and in Leningrad (at 26 25th October Avenue). Its members tried to expand the Association throughout the Soviet Union but their efforts never materialized due to the government's consolidation of independent guilds and unions in 1930. As an aside, the publishing house of ...
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