PP 1160 | Poster Plakat

Have you subscribed to the newspaper *New Village* ?
*New Village* [is] the provincial peasant newspaper published two times per week, on Tuesdays and Fridays.
*New Village* explains to peasants what has happened abroad and in our Soviet Union.
[Partial translation] — Have you subscribed to the newspaper *New Village* ? *New Village* [is] the provincial peasant newspaper published two times per week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. *New Village* explains to peasants what has happened abroad and in our Soviet Union. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 1160

**Category:** Education & Literacy

**Poster Notes:** In the Soviet Union, there were several newspapers titled “New Village” (*Novaia Derevnia*). Research indicates the featured newspaper of this poster was published in May 1924 in Penza Region. The newspaper was also called *Od Vele* in the Moksha language spoken near Penza.

**Media Size:** 30.5x23.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** c.1924

**Print Run:** 5,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** 405. Gublit Penza, provincial section of Glavlit

**Sources & Citation:** Savin, O. (1978). *Penza: Ocherk-putevoditelʹ.* Saratov: Privolzh. kn. izd-vo., Penz. otd-nie. (P. 130-131, mention of Novaia derevnia published in Penza) Avtaikin, I. E., Tiugaev, N. F., et al. (1973). *Kraevedenie Mordovii:Materialy 1-i Mordovskoi kraevedcheskoi konferentsii.* Saransk: Mordovskoe knizhnoe izd-vo. (P. 88, mention of Novaia derevnia in Moksha)

**Catalog Notes:** PP 1160 Education & Literacy

Artist: Artist Unknown — неизвестный художник

The artist's name on the poster is not indicated. By assigning Artist Unknown to a poster it also could mean the artist used a chop mark whereby no signature is seen thus rendering the artist's identity anonymous.

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Printer: Typolithography Workshop named for V.V. Vorovskii, Moscow — Типо-литография им. Воровского, Москва

The Typolithography Workshop named for V.V. Vorovskii was named in honor of Vatslav Vatslavovich Vorovskii (1871-1923) who was the head of Gosizdat (State Publishing House) from 1919 to 1920. After leaving Gosizdat, Vorovskii served as a diplomat for the Soviet Union. In 1923, he was assassinated in Lausanne, Switzerland. The printing house bearing his name was located in Moscow at 18 Dzerzhinskii Street, a thoroughfare that later was named Bolshaia Lubianka.

Have you subscribed to the newspaper *New Village* ? *New Village* [is] the provincial peasant newspaper published two times per week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. *New Village* explains to peasants what has happened abroad and in our Soviet Union. [Partial translation]

Have you subscribed to the newspaper New Village ? New Village [is] the provincial peasant newspaper published two times per week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. New Village explains to peasants what has happened abroad and in our Soviet Union. [Partial translation]