Every signature on this petition for a peace accord is a sure blow against the new warmongers.
Poster Number: PP 384
Category: Cold War
Poster Notes: (On banners in Russian, French, Czech, English, Ukrainian, Dutch, Latvian): "Peace"; (On white paper): “Petition signatures for a committee for a peace treaty"; Poster refers to March 1950 Stockholm peace petition carried out by the Cominform and endorsed by the Soviet Union, its satellite states, and by Communist parties around the world. Tabulation of results was made public in August 1950 boasting that 273,470,566 persons signed the petition.
Media Size: 40x26.5
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1951
Editorial Information: Editor R. Pangsepp
Technical Information on Poster: Printed at “Communist";Telephone 4066; Price: 3 rubles.
Print Run: 3,000
Glavlit Directory Number: MB-12129
Catalog Notes: PP 384 Cold War b
USSR Region: Estonian SSR
Language: Estonian
Artist: Samoilov-Babin, Lev Samoilovich — Самойлов-Бабин, Лев Самойлович
Lev Samoilovich Samoilov-Babin was a Soviet painter, poster artist, cartoonist and illustrator. In his youth, his family moved to Kharkov, Ukraine due to hostilities caused by the Russian Civil War. In Kharkov, he studied at the city’s art school and went on to continue his education at the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute of Art. When his studies were interrupted by the war, Samoilov-Babin went on to serve in the Russo-Finnish War (1939-1940), and in th...
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Publisher: Estonian National Publishing, Tallinn — Эстонское государственное издательство, Таллинн
Estonian National Publishing (Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus) was the state-owned publishing entity of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. The publisher was also known as Estonian State Press and it printed literature and ephemera. In 1940, it began operations as the Tartu State Publishing House (until 1941), and around 1944 it moved to the capital city of Tallinn. In addition to publishing books and posters; Estonian National Publishing disseminated works of fiction and art. During a 1949 reorganization, the publishing house ...
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