PP 404 | Poster Plakat

Long live the Communist Volunteer Day of May 1st! 1-May-20

**Poster Number:** PP 404

**Category:** Events

**Poster Notes:** A subbotnik was a "Saturday Volunteer" who worked in the period shortly after the October Revolution to help with public improvement jobs. This poster was printed for the 1920 Moscow subbotnik attended by Lenin. The top of the poster reads: "RSFSR [Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic] Workers of all countries, unite!"

**Media Size:** 32x25

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1920

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 354, poster 2111; Kenez, P. (2003). *The birth of the propaganda state: Soviet methods of mass mobilization, 1917-1929*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.; Lenin, V. I., & Institut marksizma-leninizma pri CK KPSS Moskva (1963). *Polnoe sobranie sočinenij: Tom 42.* Izdatelʹstvo političeskoj literatury.

**Catalog Notes:** PP 404 Events b

Artist: Mukharskii, Stepan Matveevich — Мухарский, Степан Матвеевич

As an artist and the owner of a typography in Moscow, Stepan Matveevish Mukharskii was very familiar with poster design as well as the method of poster production. His self-produced posters and prints spanned the First World War to the mid-1920s. Some of his noted poster titles include: “Only commanders from the workers and peasants will lead the Red Army to final victory” (1918); “Tsarist soldiers. Soldiers of the Revolution” (1919), “Universal military training [...

Long live the Communist Volunteer Day of May 1st! 1-May-20