PP 038 | Poster Plakat

To the beacon of the Communist International. Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic

**Poster Number:** PP 038

**Category:** Events

**Poster Notes:** This poster was made for the Second Congress of the Communist International held in the summer of 1920 in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) and in Moscow. On the book it reads: "Workers of the world, unite! Karl Marx".

**Media Size:** 46x32

**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 161, poster 227

**Catalog Notes:** PP 038 Events

Artist: Spasskii, Vasilii Vasil'evich — Спасский, Василий Васильевич

Printer: Printer not indicated —

Publisher: VTsIK (All-Russian Central Executive Committee), Moscow — ВЦИК (Всероссийский Центральный Исполнительный Комитет), Москва

VTsIK (Vserossiyskii Centralny Ispolnitelny Komitet ) was the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Workers', Peasants', Red Army and Cossack Deputies. It was the highest legislative and administrative body of government in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from 1917 until 1936. Following the reformation of the Soviet Constitution in 1936, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR replaced VTsIK. From a publishing angle, VTsIK disseminated agitational and military literature in addition to official publications. In May 1919, VTsIK ...

To the beacon of the Communist International. Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic