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How to make calico from bread? [Partial translation]

Poster Number: PP 576
Category: Industry
Media Size: 34х23.5
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: c.1919
Sources & Citation: Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 447, poster 2937
Catalog Notes: PP 576 Industry
Artist: P.A. — П.А.
Printer: Mashistov Typolithography Partnership, Moscow — Типолитография Товарищества И.М.Машистова
The Mashistov Typolithography Partnership was located in Moscow at 23 Bol'shaia Sadovaia Street. Its history begins with Ivan Mikhailovich Mashistov (1851-1914) the founder and managing director of Mashistov Typolithography. His firm printed magazines, historical books, and during the First World War, it printed and published patriotic posters. Under the Soviets, Mashistov Lithography was nationalized and it became the 15th Lithographic Workshop. The workshop was subsequently managed by the Moscow printing trust of Mospoligraf. In addition, it ...
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Publisher: Narkomprod (People's Commissariat of Food) — Наркомпрод
Prior to Bolshevik control, the procurement and management of foodstuffs in Russia was carried out via administrative divisions. To change this, Narkomprod (People's Commissariat of Food) was created by the Bolsheviks to manage food supply for the public and military, and to take charge of the procurement of agricultural implements, seeds and products of mass consumption. Through a government directive in May 1918, Narkomprod was given singular control of food distribution under a centralized system. With ...
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