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The people of Cuba will hold their freedom against enemy attack!

Poster Number: PP 628
Category: Cold War
Media Size: 43x27
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1961
Editorial Information: Editor Y. Marinenko
Technical Information on Poster: [Approved] December 26, 1960; Publication No. 1-606; Order No. 2271; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Price 10 kopeks
Glavlit Directory Number: A10442
Catalog Notes: PP 628 Cold War
Artist: Savostiuk, Oleg Mikhailovich — Савостюк, Олег Михайлович
Printer: Krasnii Proletarii (Red Proletarian), Moscow — Красный Пролетарий, Москва
The Krasnii Proletarii Workshop originated under the ownership of Ivan Kushnerev, a Russian entrepreneur who founded the Kushnerev & Company Printing Shop in 1869 in Moscow. When Kushnerev died in 1896, his printing operation was one of the largest in Imperial Russia. In 1919, the printer was nationalized by the Soviets and consigned to the Printing Section of the Moscow Economic Council (MSNKh). Around 1920, it was placed under the Poligrafkiniga (Book and Magazine Printing) Trust and was given ...
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Publisher: IzoGiz (State Publishing House of Fine Art), Moscow — Изогиз (Государственное издательство изобразительного искусства), Москва
The history of IzoGiz begins with the formation of Ogiz, the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. In 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz to centralize publishing under a monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, to streamline and control publishing production and its output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ordered certain ...
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