PP 782 | Poster Plakat

The deserter on the labor front is breaking the back of the Red Army! The deserter on the labor front is a traitor to workers and peasants! Don’t hide, don’t spare the deserter!

**Poster Number:** PP 782

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:**
[On the left side on top of the poster]
R.S.F.S.R.
[On the right side on top of the poster]
Workers of all countries, unite!

**Media Size:** 15.5x12

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** c.1920

**Technical Information on Poster:** No. 94

**Catalog Notes:** PP 782 Civil War c; Sister Poster 1182 Civil War c

Artist: Abramov, P. — Абрамов, П.

There is little published information available on the artist P. Abramov. The artist is cited in Butnik-Siverskii's Sovetskii plakat epokhi grazhdanskoi voiny, 1918–1921 (Moscow, 1960) and in Polonskii's Russkii revolyutsionnyi plakat (Moscow 1925) which are perhaps the most comprehensive references on Russian Civil War posters, however only the first initial of the artist is indicated in both works.

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Printer: Printer not indicated —

Publisher: Litizdat (Literary and Publishing Department of the Political Directorate of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic) — Литиздат (Литературно-издательский отдел политического управления РВСР)

Litizdat (Literaturno-izdatel'skii otdel politicheskogo upravleniia RVSR) was established in June 1919 by order of the Department of the Political Directorate (PUR) of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic (RVSR). A formal decree approved its existence in October that year. Due to the hierarchy of Litizdat's formation, its title is often abbreviated as Litizdat PUR RVSR on publications it issued. As the main publishing arm for the Red Army and the Red Navy, Litizdat distributed a ...

The deserter on the labor front is breaking the back of the Red Army! The deserter on the labor front is a traitor to workers and peasants! Don’t hide, don’t spare the deserter!