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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]

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: Polonskii, V. (1925). Russian Revolutionary Posters 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
USSR Region: Ukrainian SSR
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.
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Printer: Energia (Energy) Typography Workshop, Kharkov — Типография Энергия, Харьков
The name "Energy" was used for a multitude of printers throughout the Soviet Union. This particular printer was located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR) and in the city of Kharkov.
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Publisher: Gubpechat' (Provincial Administrative Organizational Department of Printing) — Губпечать (Губернское административное организационное управление распространения и распределения печати)
Gubpechat' (Provincial Administrative Organizational Department of the Dissemination and Distribution of Print) handled printing and distribution of nearly all the literature and propaganda in the Soviet-controlled provinces during the Russian Civil War. Its main offices were located in Kazan and in Kharkov. The department worked in tandem with Tsentropechat’ (Central Agency on Printed Works). Around 1919, Gubpechat' was placed under the State Publishing House whereby it served as both a publisher and a printer of government-issued li...
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