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Long Live Soviet Power! The route to happiness of the laborers is via the soviets, led by the Communist Party!

Poster Number: PP 1016
Category: Workers
Poster Notes: Upper right corner is written "Workers of the world, unite!"
Media Size: 28x23
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1921
Technical Information on Poster: No. 998-1; RVTs (Passed by Military Censor), Kiev 1921
Catalog Notes: PP 1016 Workers b
USSR Region: Ukrainian SSR
Artist: Marenkov, Alexei Vasilievich — Маренков, Алексей Васильевич
Alexei Vasilievich Marenkov was a graphic artist and arts educator in the Soviet Union. For the initial part of his artistic schooling, he studied drawing under the tutelage of the German artist Werner Ernst Hoffmann. From 1905 to 1912, Marenkov was enrolled in the Kiev Art School where he was graduated. After obtaining his education, Marenkov worked in the field of book illustration. Following the collapse of Tsarist Russia in 1917, Marenkov served as an illustrator on the ...
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Printer: 2nd Soviet Typography [Photo-Lithography] Workshop, Kiev — 2-я Советская фото-лито-типография, Киев
The 2nd Soviet Typography Workshop was located at 4 Pushkin Street in Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Over a period of management changes through the years, the printer was also known as the Photo-Lithography Workshop as well as the Soviet Printing Office.
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Publisher: State Publishing House, Kiev — Государственное издательство, Киев
The State Publishing House had its origins in Imperial Russia as the Royal Print Yard in St. Petersburg. As the Red Army controlled more provinces and cities in former Imperial Russia, the State Publishing House developed offices outside St. Petersburg. Kiev was a major city of Imperial Russia as well as of the USSR. Once Soviet control was established in Ukraine, publishing was concentrated in the State Publishing House that existed from 1919-1930. Today, Kiev ...
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