PP 1156 | Poster Plakat

The Communist Party of Ukraine Has Constructed a Workers and Peasants Ukrainian Government. In 1917, the working people of all Russia revolted and overthrew the hangman, Nicholas II. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 1156

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:** Red Army soldier is holding (clockwise): Nestor Mankhno leader of the Black Army of Ukraine, Kurk [possibly the name Kurkulin], a bottle of Samogon [moonshine], Denikin [White Russian general], Wrangel [White Russian general], Kerenskii [Alexander Kerenskii of the Provisional Government]; Skoropadskyi [Ukraine "Hetman" Pavlo Skoropadskyi], Petliura [Symon Petliura, Ukraine Social Democrat, succeeded Skoropadskyi], "Peace" [held by German officer], "Goods" [held by figure representing a capitalist with “Trade agreement”], another figure with a treaty of “Peace”; Under soldier's right foot is the crown of the Tsar; [right corner]: "Workers of the world, unite!"

**Media Size:** 24.5x19.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1921

**Technical Information on Poster:** No. 1051; RVTs (Passed by Military Censor), Kiev 1921

**Print Run:** 3,000

**Sources & Citation:** PP 1156 Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B.S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 242, poster 969.

**Catalog Notes:** PP 1156 Civil War c

**USSR Region:** Ukrainian SSR

**Language:** Ukrainian

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 ...

The Communist Party of Ukraine Has Constructed a Workers and Peasants Ukrainian Government. In 1917, the working people of all Russia revolted and overthrew the hangman, Nicholas II. [Partial translation]