PP 046 | Poster Plakat

Comrade! Guard your right to build a political life! Guard your vote! Let not a single vote be lost! After centuries of oppression, slavery and exploitation, you are free! The political and economic power of the society is in your hands. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 046

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:** Poster was reportedly used for elections of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly, a constitutional body in Russia formed after the October Revolution of 1917. Although the Bolsheviks were among the political parties running, no single party won a majority.

**Media Size:** 28.5x23

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** c.1917

**Sources & Citation:** Polonskii, V. (1925). *Russian Revolutionary Posters* page 134, poster 164; Bonnell, V. E. (1999). *Iconography of power: Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin.* Berkeley: University of California Press. (P. 25, figure 1.3)

**Catalog Notes:** PP 046 Civil War

**USSR Region:** Ukrainian SSR

Artist: UkROSTA (All-Ukrainian Bureau of the Russian Telegraph Agency) — УкРОСТА (Всеукраинского бюро Российского телеграфного агентства)

UkROSTA was a Soviet news organization founded in January 1920. Its creation served to replace the Bureau of the Ukrainian Press. While UkROSTA was a news organization, it also employed a cadre of artists to design posters for publication. Frequently, the artists (working as a collective) did not attribute their names to the artwork they designed for UkROSTA.

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Publisher: Gubpechat' (Provincial Administrative Organizational Department of Printing) — Губпечать (Губернское административное организационное управление распространения и распределения печати)

Gubpechat' (Provincial Administrative Organizational Department of the Dissemination and Distribution of Print) handled printing and distribution of nearly all the literature and propaganda in the Soviet-controlled provinces during the Russian Civil War. Its main offices were located in Kazan and in Kharkov. The department worked in tandem with Tsentropechat’ (Central Agency on Printed Works). Around 1919, Gubpechat' was placed under the State Publishing House whereby it served as both a publisher and a printer of government-issued li...

Comrade! Guard your right to build a political life! Guard your vote! Let not a single vote be lost! After centuries of oppression, slavery and exploitation, you are free! The political and economic power of the society is in your hands. [Partial translation]