PP 421 | Poster Plakat

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

**Print Run:** 2,000

**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

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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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 ...