PP 1167 | Poster Plakat

The artel leads to good - [go] not a step without the artel! [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 1167

**Category:** Agriculture

**Poster Notes:** The artel system was an association of cooperatives that existed since the Tsarist era. Although the artel was continued during the Soviet era, its cooperatives were stripped of private enterprise aspects and replaced by a state-managed system that discouraged profit motives.

**Media Size:** 30x23.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** c.1922

**Print Run:** 10,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** 62420

**Catalog Notes:** PP 1167 Agriculture b

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: Iskra Revolutsii (Revolutionary Spark) Typography Workshop, Moscow — Типография Искра революции, Москва

Iskra Revolutsii was a Moscow printer that was also known as the 15th Iskra Revolutsii Typography Workshop. Over the decades, the printer was under a host of printing trusts such as Soiuzpoligrafprom (All-Union Association of Printing Enterprises) that handed jobs for the state publisher Glavizdat (Main Administration of Publishing Houses, Printing Industry and Book Trade). Iskra Revolutsii was also managed by Glavpoligrafizdat (Main Administration for Matters of Polygraphic Industry Publishing and Book Selling), a trust ...

The artel leads to good - [go] not a step without the artel! [Partial translation]