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Poor Peasant! Citizens of Poltava will fulfill the remainder of the reduced requisition.
The Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic is placing all hope on you. You can overcome everything to fulfill requisitions sent to Poltava so city workers won’t starve.  Grab the kurkul [kulak] by the neck!  Let him give us the surplus he's holding back, don’t let him put his bread to rot under the earth while workers are starving!

Poor Peasant! Citizens of Poltava will fulfill the remainder of the reduced requisition. The Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic is placing all hope on you. You can overcome everything to fulfill requisitions sent to Poltava so city workers won’t starve. Grab the kurkul [kulak] by the neck! Let him give us the surplus he's holding back, don’t let him put his bread to rot under the earth while workers are starving!

Poster Number: PP 421
Category: Civil War
Poster Notes: Poster was made for the Komnezamozh (Poor Peasant Committee) to raise money for famine victims in the Volga river region during the civil war; [Top of poster] Workers of all countries unite!; [On table] "Requisition".
Media Size: 24.5x22
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1920
Technical Information on Poster: RVTs (Passed by Military Censor), No. 564. Poltava
Sources & Citation: Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B.S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 462, poster 3066; Belichko, U.V., & Kilesso, S. K. (1987). Mistetstvo narodzhene zhovtnem: Ukrainsʹke radiansʹke obrazotvorche mystetstvo ta arkhitektura 1917-1987. Kyïv: Mystetstvo.
Catalog Notes: PP 421 Civil War b
USSR Region: Ukrainian SSR
Language: Ukrainian
Artist: Rozhankivskii, Petr — Рожанкивский, Петр (Рожанковский)
Petr Rozhankivskii worked in Poltava, Ukraine. While limited information is available on the artist, his surname is documented as Rozhankivskii and as Rozhankovskii, depending on the source. It is unknown if he shared a family connection with the Russian émigré illustrator Fedor Rozhankovskii.
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Printer: 3rd Soviet Typography Workshop, Poltava — 3-я Советская типография, Полтава
Little information is available on the 3rd Soviet Typography Workshop. It was located in Poltava, Ukraine. The printer's formation is likely tied to the Bolshevik occupation of the city in 1918 during the Ukrainian-Soviet War.
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Publisher: All-Ukrainian State Publishing House — Всеукраинское издательство (Всеукриздат)
All-Ukrainian State Publishing House (Vseukrizdat) was founded in 1919 as the State Publishing House of Ukraine and its formation was based upon a directive by the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee. The publishing house had branches in the cities of Kharkov, Kiev, Volyn', Poltava and other locations in Ukraine. In 1920, the publisher was renamed All-Ukrainian State Publishing and in 1922, the publisher was renamed DVU (Derzhavne vydavnytstvo Ukrainy). DVU became the largest publisher in Soviet Ukraine and the ...
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