PP 143 | Poster Plakat

Worker-Farmer Youth go to Officers' Command Training. Officers' Command Training gives education: basic military and political training. Comrade Red Army Soldiers! Comrade Workers! Comrade Farmers! [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 143

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:** The Red Army developed a network of military schools, military academies and command courses during the Russian Civil War. In February 1918, accelerated artillery courses were organized in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) as well as in Moscow and other cities.

**Media Size:** 41x30

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1921

**Technical Information on Poster:** RVTs (Passed by Military Censor) No. 954, Simbirsk

**Print Run:** 1,500

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 305, poster 1614

**Catalog Notes:** PP 143 Civil War

Artist: Artist Unknown — неизвестный художник

The artist's name on the poster is not indicated. By assigning Artist Unknown to a poster it also could mean the artist used a chop mark whereby no signature is seen thus rendering the artist's identity anonymous.

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Worker-Farmer Youth go to Officers' Command Training. Officers' Command Training gives education: basic military and political training. Comrade Red Army Soldiers! Comrade Workers! Comrade Farmers! [Partial translation]