PP 573 | Poster Plakat

What is Komsomol? To teach and to learn, to raise a young generation to be loyal to the tasks of the motherland!
[On right in red box] — What is Komsomol? To teach and to learn, to raise a young generation to be loyal to the tasks of the motherland! [On right in red box] "Decorated Komsomol, always follow Stalin along the way that Lenin provided. Be among the first in everything you do!"

**Poster Number:** PP 573

**Category:** Youth

**Poster Notes:** Poster contains a 1924 poem "Komsomol Member" by Aleksandr Alekseevich Zharov (1904-1984); Komsomol was the All-Union Leninist Communist League of Youth. [Book in hands of the kids] “About Komsomol”. –J. Stalin

**Media Size:** 39х28

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1939

**Editorial Information:** Editor Strukov.

**Technical Information on Poster:** Submitted for production and approved for printing June 26, 1939; Standard Format 62 x 94; No. 4215; Index Р-10; Order No. 5237; Price 10 kopeks

**Print Run:** 50,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** A-13955

**Catalog Notes:** PP 573 Youth

Artist: Chernov, Anatolii Mikhailovich — Чернов, Анатолий Михайлович

There is little published information available about the life and career of Anatolii Chernov. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts in 1938, and during his professional life, worked in the field of graphic design and monumental art. Throughout his career, the artist designed posters for the publishing house of Iskusstvo (Art). Some of the posters he designed were made in collaboration with the Soviet artist, Petr Golub’. A few of Chernov's poster titles in...

What is Komsomol? To teach and to learn, to raise a young generation to be loyal to the tasks of the motherland! [On right in red box] "Decorated Komsomol, always follow Stalin along the way that Lenin provided. Be among the first in everything you do!"