PP 976 | Poster Plakat

Be as was the Great Lenin.
Electors; the people should require from their deputies that they do their tasks to the utmost, that in their work they do not lower themselves to the level of the political peon, that they remain at their posts as political activists of the Leninist type.
[Partial translation] — Be as was the Great Lenin. Electors; the people should require from their deputies that they do their tasks to the utmost, that in their work they do not lower themselves to the level of the political peon, that they remain at their posts as political activists of the Leninist type. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 976

**Category:** Lenin

**Poster Notes:** Text on poster comes from a December 1937 speech by Josef Stalin when he declared, "...people, must demand that their deputies should remain equal to their tasks,... that as public figures they should be as clear and definite as Lenin was, that they should be as fearless in battle and as merciless towards the enemies of the people as Lenin was...".

**Media Size:** 39x29.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph and Offset

**Publishing Date:** 1938

**Editorial Information:** Editor A. Druzhkov,; Text editor E. Strukov.

**Technical Information on Poster:** Approved for publication December 28, 1937; Approved for printing January 8, 1938; IzoGiz No. 9309; Order No. 3285; Standard format 60x94 - Volume 1 sheet of paper; Price 70 kopeks

**Print Run:** 100,000

**Glavlit Directory Number:** B-85442

**Sources & Citation:** Pisch, A. (2016). *The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929-1953: Archetypes, inventions and fabrications*. Canberra: ANU Press.

**Catalog Notes:** PP 976 Lenin

Artist: Elkin, Vasilii Nikolaevich — Елкин, Василий Николаевич

Vasilii Nikolaevich Elkin was a Soviet graphic designer and a poster artist. From 1911 to 1916, he studied drawing with the Sytinskaia, a group of artists that taught in a Moscow school operated by the prominent Russian publisher Ivan Sytin. During World War I, Elkin was called-up for duty in the Imperial forces and he served in an aviation unit. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he enlisted in the Red Army and was sent to the Volga ...

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Publisher: Ogiz-IzoGiz, Moscow-Leningrad — Огиз-Изогиз, Москва-Ленинград

Ogiz was the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. Its main offices were located in Moscow and in Leningrad. The Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz in 1930 to centralize publishing activities under a state monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, streamline and control publishing production and output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ...