PP 1161 | Poster Plakat

To save the city from hunger and cold, workers should put close-knit cadres of warriors to the firewood front.
There is no coal and there is no firewood – All is understood here without words:
Hunger, cold, the factory at a standstill, and fate curses the people.
[Partial translation] — To save the city from hunger and cold, workers should put close-knit cadres of warriors to the firewood front. There is no coal and there is no firewood – All is understood here without words: Hunger, cold, the factory at a standstill, and fate curses the people. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 1161

**Category:** Civil War

**Media Size:** 32х25.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1920

**Technical Information on Poster:** No. 60

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B.S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 356, poster 2140

**Catalog Notes:** PP 1161 Civil War c

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: 8th Soviet Typolithography, Odessa — 8-я Советская Типолитография, Одесса

Publisher: All-Ukrainian State Publishing House — Всеукраинское издательство (Всеукриздат)

All-Ukrainian State Publishing House (Vseukrizdat) was founded in 1919 as the State Publishing House of Ukraine and its formation was based upon a directive by the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee. The publishing house had branches in the cities of Kharkov, Kiev, Volyn', Poltava and other locations in Ukraine. In 1920, the publisher was renamed All-Ukrainian State Publishing and in 1922, the publisher was renamed DVU (Derzhavne vydavnytstvo Ukrainy). DVU became the largest publisher in Soviet Ukraine and the ...

To save the city from hunger and cold, workers should put close-knit cadres of warriors to the firewood front. There is no coal and there is no firewood – All is understood here without words: Hunger, cold, the factory at a standstill, and fate curses the people. [Partial translation]