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For socialist legality! For state discipline!

Poster Number: PP 1107
Poster Notes: Upper left quote is from Article 112 of the USSR’s Constitution and it says: "Judges are independent and responsible only to the law." Titles of books from top to bottom: Constitution (Fundamental Laws) of the USSR; Civil Codex; Criminal Codex; Codex of Laws on Marriage, Family, and Guardianship; Codex of Laws on Labor; Criminal Procedure Codex
Media Size: 34.5x23
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1948
Editorial Information: Editor A. Druzhkov
Technical Information on Poster: [Approved] for printing October 19, 1948; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Publication No. 8124; Order No. 1350; Price 1 ruble
Glavlit Directory Number: A-10315
Catalog Notes: PP 1107 Communist Culture c
Artist: Solov'ev, Mikhail Mikailovich — Соловьёв, Михаил Михайлович
Mikhail Mikailovich Solov'ev was born in Moscow. In 1930 he graduated from the advanced courses of the A.Kh.R.R. (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia). While he began his professional career as a painter, from 1944 on, he exclusively designed posters. He was made a member of the Union of Soviet Artists in 1933 and later, he led the poster section of the Moscow Union of Artists. During the 1930s, Solov'ev worked on posters and dioramas ...
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Printer: Iskra Revolutsii (Revolutionary Spark) Typography Workshop, Moscow — Типография Искра революции, Москва
Iskra Revolutsii was a Moscow printer that was also known as the 15th Iskra Revolutsii Typography Workshop. Over the decades, the printer was under a host of printing trusts such as Soiuzpoligrafprom (All-Union Association of Printing Enterprises) that handed jobs for the state publisher Glavizdat (Main Administration of Publishing Houses, Printing Industry and Book Trade). Iskra Revolutsii was also managed by Glavpoligrafizdat (Main Administration for Matters of Polygraphic Industry Publishing and Book Selling), a trust ...
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Publisher: Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House), Moscow-Leningrad — Искусство, Москва-Ленинград
Iskusstvo was the Art Publishing House (A.K.A. Visual Arts Publishing) that was created in 1936 from Ogiz-Izogiz (State Art and Literature Publishing House). It disseminated books and journals dealing with graphic design and the fine arts, and it issued numerous posters. Since the Iskusstvo banner was part of the State Printing Works in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, its two main offices were located in those two cities.
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