PP 401 | Poster Plakat

On the main square some days ago were three aces –a landlord without land, a manufacturer without a factory, a bank predator sitting without income – they were looking around for an hour. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 401

**Category:** Revolution

**Poster Notes:** The masses are carrying banners: "Before May 1st"; "Away with the Regime of the Tsar"; "Shadow of Upper Classes", "Shadow of Once Powerful Men"; [Poster top] Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic. Workers of all countries, unite!

**Media Size:** 33x26

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1920

**Print Run:** 5,000

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 146, poster 94

**Catalog Notes:** PP 401 Revolution

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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Printer: Printer not indicated —

Publisher: State Publishing House, Ukrainian SSR —

In May 1919, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee created the State Publishing House of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic), Moscow. Thereafter, a system of state-controlled publishing houses were opened across Soviet territories. In Ukraine, the State Publishing House was formed after the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was absorbed into Soviet Russia via a merging of their respective commissariats. Initially, two mergers brought Ukraine under the sphere of Soviet influence; one merger occurred in June 1919 ...

On the main square some days ago were three aces –a landlord without land, a manufacturer without a factory, a bank predator sitting without income – they were looking around for an hour. [Partial translation]