The artist's birth surname is Ter-Karapetian.

Although there were earlier versions of the "Workers' Newspaper", this Moscow-based periodical began publication in 1922. Its main offices were located in Moscow at 49 and 63 Sushchovskii Rampart. While the printer chiefly issued its in-house periodical, it occasionally disseminated political ephemera such as posters. In 1932, the newspaper ceased publication.

The International Organization for Aid to the Fighters of the Revolution (Mezhdunarodnaia Organizatsiia Pomoshchi Revoliutsioneram, MOPR) was popularly known as International Red Aid. It was a subsidiary of the Communist International and had offices around the world. In the U.S., MOPR operated under the name International Labor Defense (ILD). The ILD formed in Chicago in 1925 and was associated with the Workers' party. In 1947, the ILD merged with the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties forming ...