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The Red Army is the faithful defender of October, the mainstay of the architecture of peace, the USSR.

Poster Number: PP 089
Category: Military
Poster Notes: This poster was printed in various languages and it was issued in a period of tension along the Russo-Chinese border following the creation of the Japanese Manchu State in Manchuria, China. The soldier in the background (of the three on the poster) is likely of Evenk (Tungus) or Manchu origin. Evenks are an indigenous people that lived along the Sino-Soviet border. (Text at lower left) “We do not want an inch of foreign soil, but we will not give up an inch of our territory." -Stalin.
Media Size: 44x32.5
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1932
Editorial Information: Editor Yenchinov; Technical Editor Gusev
Technical Information on Poster: Izogiz No. 4982; I. 35. Order No. 5796; Submitted for production August 9, 1932; Approved for printing August 26, 1932; Standard format 73 x 104; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Price 60 kopeks; "Send your comments about this poster to: Moscow, IZOGIZ, Mass Agitation Sector".
Glavlit Directory Number: B-25257
Sources & Citation: Mercer and Middlesex Auction catalog: June 5, 2011
Catalog Notes: PP 089 Military; Sister Poster PP 715
Language: Oirat
Artist: Liubimov — Любимов
Printer: Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian), Moscow — Красный Пролетарий, Москва
The Krasnii Proletarii Workshop originated under the ownership of Ivan Kushnerev, a Russian entrepreneur who founded the Kushnerev & Company Printing Shop in 1869 in Moscow. When Kushnerev died in 1896, his printing operation was one of the largest in Imperial Russia. In 1919, the printer was nationalized by the Soviets and consigned to the Printing Section of the Moscow Economic Council (MSNKh). Around 1920, it was placed under the Poligrafkiniga (Book and Magazine Printing) Trust and was given ...
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Publisher: Ogiz-IzoGiz, Moscow-Leningrad — Огиз-Изогиз, Москва-Ленинград
Ogiz was the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. Its main offices were located in Moscow and in Leningrad. The Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz in 1930 to centralize publishing activities under a state monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, streamline and control publishing production and output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ...
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