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The Soviet Union is fighting for peace in the front lines and is leading the nations toward a bright future!

Poster Number: PP 676
Category: Cold War
Media Size: 40x30
Poster Type: Offset
Publishing Date: 1962
Editorial Information: Editor G. Shchetkin
Technical Information on Poster: [Approved for printing] August 29, 1962; Publication No. 1-805; Order No. 966; Volume 1 sheet of paper; Price 10 kopeks
Glavlit Directory Number: A 07392
Catalog Notes: PP 676 Cold War b
Artist: Golovanov, Leonid Fedorovich — Голованов, Леонид Федорович
Printer: Kalinin City Poligrafkombinat of Sovnarkhoz of the RSFSR — Калининский полиграфический комбинат Московского совнархоза Верховного Совета РСФСР
The Poligrafkombinat (printing plant) of Kalinin was the printer for Sovnarkhoz RSFSR (the Regional Council of National Economy of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic). Sovnarkhoz was an economic reorganization that came about in 1957 when over 100 "economic regions" were created in the USSR to localize and reduce the inordinate role of state administered, top-down economics. The printer was located at 5 Lenin Avenue (formerly Voroshilov Street) in the city of Kalinin (Tver) northwest of ...
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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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