PP 046 | Poster Plakat

Comrade! Guard your right to build a political life! Guard your vote! Let not a single vote be lost! After centuries of oppression, slavery and exploitation, you are free! The political and economic power of the society is in your hands. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 046

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:** Poster was reportedly used for elections of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly, a constitutional body in Russia formed after the October Revolution of 1917. Although the Bolsheviks were among the political parties running, no single party won a majority.

**Media Size:** 28.5x23

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** c.1917

**Sources & Citation:**
Russian Revolutionary Posters by V. Polonskii (1925), page 134, poster 164
Bonnell, V. E. (1999). *Iconography of power: Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin.* Berkeley: University of California Press. (P. 25, figure 1.3)

**Catalog Notes:** PP 046 Civil War

Artist: UkROSTA (All-Ukrainian Bureau of the Russian Telegraph Agency) — УкРОСТА (Всеукраинского бюро Российского телеграфного агентства)

UkROSTA was a Soviet news organization founded in January 1920. Its creation served to replace the Bureau of the Ukrainian Press. While UkROSTA was a news organization, it also employed a cadre of artists to design posters for publication. Frequently, the artists (working as a collective) did not attribute their names to the artwork they designed for UkROSTA.

Comrade! Guard your right to build a political life! Guard your vote! Let not a single vote be lost! After centuries of oppression, slavery and exploitation, you are free! The political and economic power of the society is in your hands. [Partial translation]