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Do not forget [from] March 25 to April 6 Elections to the Soviet - Show your strength Red Moscow.

Poster Number: PP 1118
Category: Events
Media Size: 39.5x29.5
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: c.1925
Technical Information on Poster: Izo Studios, Moscow Proletkul'tura
Glavlit Directory Number: 14256. Mosgublit, Moscow provincial office section of Glavlit
Catalog Notes: PP 1118 Events b
Artist: Proletkult (Proletarian Culture) Studios — Пролетарская Культура (Пролеткульт)
Proletarskaia Kultura (Proletarian Culture) was known by its portmanteau name, Proletkult. Created in 1917 by Alexandr Bogdanov, director of the Socialist Academy of Social Sciences (SAON); Proletkult was to provide the foundations of a new, worker-based art form, "liberated from bourgeois, pre-Soviet culture." Proletkult's manifesto was simple: 1) proletarian culture equals communism, 2) Proletkult is the responsibility of the Russian Communist Party, 3) proletariat class equals the Russian Communist Party that equals Soviet power. Mass-production and machine ...
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Printer: Mospoligraf (Moscow Polygraphic), Moscow — Мосполиграф, Москва
Mospoligraf was a state-owned printing trust located in Moscow. When the Soviet Union formulated a plan in 1921 to consolidate the nation’s largest and best printing operators into state-owned trusts; Mospoligraf was organized in 1922 to carry out consolidation of the Moscow printing industry. With a staff of over two thousand, Mospoligraf was the second-largest printing trust organized in Moscow outside of the Mospechat’ trust, and it oversaw a myriad of houses under local printing sections such...
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