PP 647 | Poster Plakat

Remember Kolkhoznik! [Pending translation (Без Перевода)]

**Poster Number:** PP 647

**Category:** Agriculture

**Poster Notes:** Kolkhozniks were collective farm workers and they held a higher social status within the larger sphere of the agriculture industry of the Soviet Union The word Kolkholznik comes from the portmanteau kolkhoz (kollektivnoe khoziaistvo) -- collective farm. The farm was a state-owned entity and its workers were the farm’s members as well as its owners. Kolkhozniks worked the farm but also handled its management. A Kolkhoz somewhat paralleled the Tsarist-era obshchina (peasant community) but it operated differently in that a Kolkhoz had an association of workers paid directly by the Kolkhoz itself. Workers received a portion of earnings per the number of days they worked and they were given a plot of land with the right to trade its yield back to the state at regulated prices. Workers did not hold salaried positions and they labored under a system of brigades and units. While a Kolkhoznik lived on the farm where they worked they could not easily leave and change jobs. [Written on silo] "Silage".

**Media Size:** 44x31

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1931

**Technical Information on Poster:** [Approved for printing] August 23, 1931

**Print Run:** 60

**Glavlit Directory Number:** [number illegible] Mosoblit, Moscow regional section of Glavlit

**Sources & Citation:**
Bonah, C., et al. (2018). *Health education films in the twentieth century.* Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
Fitzpatrick, S. (1994). *Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization.* New York: Oxford University Press. (PP. 111 to 112, kolkhoznik and kolkhoz explained)
csdfmuseum.ru (source suggests Vostokkino operated 1929-1935)

**Catalog Notes:** PP 647 Agriculture (framed)

Artist: Artist Unknown — неизвестный художник

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Printer: Mospoligraf (Moscow Polygraphic), Moscow — Мосполиграф, Москва

Mospoligraf was a state-owned printing trust located in Moscow. When the Soviet Union formulated a plan in 1921 to consolidate the nation’s largest and best printing operators into state-owned trusts; Mospoligraf was organized in 1922 to carry out consolidation of the Moscow printing industry. With a staff of over two thousand, Mospoligraf was the second-largest printing trust organized in Moscow outside of the Mospechat’ trust, and it oversaw a myriad of houses under local printing sections such...

Remember Kolkhoznik! [Pending translation (Без Перевода)]