PP 922 | Poster Plakat

Bravely, comrades, in step! We will strengthen our souls in the struggle, The way to the kingdom of freedom We will make for ourselves. We have all emerged from the people, Children of the family of labor! [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 922

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:** Тext attributed to the 1890s revolutionary poem and song, "Bravely, comrades, in step!", by Leonid Petrovich Radin (1860-1900); Upper margin reads, "It is strictly prohibited to rip or cover over this poster. Those guilty will be held responsible."

**Media Size:** 30x24

**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 202, poster 600

**Catalog Notes:** PP 922 Civil War c

Artist: Illegible Initials — Инициалы Неразборчивы

Printer: Printer not indicated —

Publisher: Glavpolitprosvet (Main Department of Political Education of the People's Commissariat of Education, RSFSR) — Главполитпросвет, РСФСР

Glavpolitprosvet (Main Department for Political Education) was created in 1920 and placed under the People's Commissariat of Education (Narkompros). Glavpolitprosvet served as a semi-independent institution that supervised political education. Its chief function was to educate non-Communist Party members and yet its management frequently crossed over into the Party apparatus. Political education was managed via local reading-rooms, lecture halls, social clubs, public libraries ("mass libraries"), movie production and exhibition ("mass cinema"), adult schools, ...

Bravely, comrades, in step! We will strengthen our souls in the struggle, The way to the kingdom of freedom We will make for ourselves. We have all emerged from the people, Children of the family of labor! [Partial translation]