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"In our time of the people’s formation of the state, what we must create above all is a form of cooperatives "

Poster Number: PP 403
Category: Agriculture
Poster Notes: [Illustrated on badge] V. Ulianov (Lenin)
Media Size: 31x25.5
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: c.1924
Catalog Notes: PP 403 Agriculture b
USSR Region: Ukrainian SSR
Language: Ukrainian
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: School of Print Production named after L. Balabanov, Kiev — Школы Полиграф-производства им . Л. Балабанова, Киев
The School of Print Production in Kiev was part of the Rabfak (factory training) program. In the early 1920s, the school was named in honor of Leonid Balabanov who was a former Komsomol secretary in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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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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