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All-Ukraine Cooperative of Bookselling and Distribution Union - “Book Union” Office: Kharkov, Horiainivs’kyi [Street] No. 2 Books on all branches of literature, particularly cooperation and agriculture, [Partial translation]

Poster Number: PP 1153
Poster Notes: Calendar on poster is dated December 1926 and includes message, "December – is the month of the campaign to expand New Society [magazine] for 1927."
Media Size: 28x21.5
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1926
Glavlit Directory Number: 17100/v. Ukrgolovlit, city section of Glavlit in Kharkov, Ukraine; and 16707.Ukrgolovlit, city section of Glavlit in Kharkov, Ukraine
Catalog Notes: PP 1153 Education & Literacy b
USSR Region: Ukrainian SSR
Artist: Bondarovich, Anatolii Martinovich — Бондарович, Анатолий Мартинович
Printer: Printing School named for A.V. Baginskii, Kharkov — Школы печатного дела им. А. В. Багинского, Харьков
The Kharkov-based printing school was named in honor of Andrei Vasil’evich Baginskii (A.V. Baginskii), а printer and a Bolshevik representative of the Kiev Soviet. Baginskii was also a member of the Red Guard during the Russian Civil War. Around 1930, the name of the school was changed to the Ivan Fedorov Ukrainian Polygraphic Institute.
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Publisher: Knigospilka (All-Ukrainian Cooperative Book Merchandising and Publishing Union) — Книгоспiлка (Всеукраинский кооперативный книжно-издательский союз)
Knigospilka was the All-Ukrainian Cooperative Book Merchandising and Publishing Union. Based in Kharkov, Ukraine, it operated from 1920 to 1929. While it occasionally published posters, its chief task was turning out books and literature for use in Consumers' Societies, Workers' and Transport Societies, and for the rural population in Ukraine. To that end, the publisher played a role in the implementation of Communist Party policy in the countryside. After 1922, Knigospilka concentrated on publishing informational literature concerning agriculture ...
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