PP 1154 | Poster Plakat

How the Tsars bullied the people. 1.) Father- the aged one and wife [having] left you behind, and go to war; 2.) In service under the Tsarist bayonet. They feed themselves by their fists!; 3.) Later they drive all the crowd of you like sheep to the slaughter. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 1154

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:** Verses on this poster are by the Soviet poet and satirist, Dem'ian Bedny (Yefim Pridvorov).

**Media Size:** 29.5x22

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1918

**Technical Information on Poster:** [Written on poster] Moscow 1918

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B.S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 164, poster 235; White, S. (1988). *The Bolshevik Poster.* New Haven: Yale University Press. (p. 93, PP 1154 cited)

**Catalog Notes:** PP 1154 Civil War c

Artist: Krylov, N. — Крылов, Н.

Printer: 2nd State Typography Lithography Workshop, Moscow — 2-я Государственная Типография, Москва

The 2nd State Typography Lithography Workshop was located in Moscow at 9 Trekhprudnyi Lane. Prior to being nationalized, the workshop was the A.A. Levinson Partnership. Levenson's firm dates to 1881 when Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Levenson (1855-1922) acquired a speed press and began his printing operation. The firm expanded to 450 workers by 1913, and at one point, it operated six of Moscow's eighteen high-speed presses. During World War I, Levinson's business was subjugated under the Zemgorom (Chief Army Supply ...

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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 ...

How the Tsars bullied the people. 1.) Father- the aged one and wife [having] left you behind, and go to war; 2.) In service under the Tsarist bayonet. They feed themselves by their fists!; 3.) Later they drive all the crowd of you like sheep to the slaughter. [Partial translation]