PP 1184 | Poster Plakat

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**Poster Number:** PP 1184

**Category:** Education & Literacy

**Poster Notes:** [On building] Faith if the wisdom of fools. Knowledge is the sword of all chains; Verses on this poster are by the Soviet poet and satirist, Dem'ian Bedny (Yefim Pridvorov).

**Media Size:** 37x27.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1919

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B.S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 159, poster 211.

**Catalog Notes:** PP 1184 Educationn & Literacy

Artist: I.T. — И.Т.

The artist's initials are documented in a Soviet-era publication as "I.T." however a visual inspection of the poster indicates the initials are likely "B.T." While not verified, the artist might be Timofei Boichuk. See Boichuk, Timofei.

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Publisher: State Publishing House, Moscow — Государственное издательство, Москва

In May 1919, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee created the State Publishing House of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic), Moscow. 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. The State Publishing House, Moscow is sometimes cited in historical references as the "...

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