PP 755 | Poster Plakat

Trade Unions — Builders of Communism!

**Poster Number:** PP 755

**Category:** Workers

**Poster Notes:**
[First image] In Czarist Russia.
[Second image] In Soviet Russia.
[Third image] In the society of the future.

**Media Size:** 46x32

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1921

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 379, poster 2338

**Catalog Notes:** PP 755 Workers b

Artist: Illegible Name — Неразборчивое Имя

Printer: 20th State Typolithography Workshop, Moscow — 20-я Государственная типография (бывш. Кушнерова), Москва

Russian entrepreneur Ivan Nikolaievich Kushnerev founded the Kushnerev & Company Printing Shop in 1869 in Moscow. Initially, he opened a small shop “with a dozen workers, one hand press, and a single printing machine.” In 1903, Kushnerev acquired Moscow’s first Linotype press. As his business grew, he brought-in partners, and when he died in 1896, Kushnerev's printing firm was one of the largest in Imperial Russia. In 1919, Kushnerev & Company was nationalized by the Soviets and co...

Trade Unions — Builders of Communism!