PP 469 | Poster Plakat

Russia, to the aid of the Donetsk miner!

[Between train tracks] Comrade workers of all Russia and you aware and honest peasants!

Direct your gaze in the direction of the Donetsk coal deposits. If you help him, he will give you more in return. In exchange for bread, clothes and shoes the Donetsk proletariat will give you their valued coal, which will heat, light and revive the whole country. Soviet Russia, to the aid of the Donetsk miner!
(From an article by Lev Trotskii) — Russia, to the aid of the Donetsk miner! [Between train tracks] Comrade workers of all Russia and you aware and honest peasants! Direct your gaze in the direction of the Donetsk coal deposits. If you help him, he will give you more in return. In exchange for bread, clothes and shoes the Donetsk proletariat will give you their valued coal, which will heat, light and revive the whole country. Soviet Russia, to the aid of the Donetsk miner! (From an article by Lev Trotskii)

**Poster Number:** PP 469

**Category:** Industry

**Poster Notes:** This poster is from the Russian Civil War and contains a quote by Leon Trotskii (1879-1940), Commissar of War and the first chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council.

**Media Size:** 41x29

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1921

**Technical Information on Poster:** Year 1921.

**Print Run:** 15,000

**Catalog Notes:** PP 469 Industry b

Artist: Artist Unknown — неизвестный художник

The artist's name on the poster is not indicated. By assigning Artist Unknown to a poster it also could mean the artist used a chop mark whereby no signature is seen thus rendering the artist's identity anonymous.

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Printer: MSNKh 16th State Publishing Typography Workshop, Moscow (formerly Levinson) — МСНХ 16-я государственная издательская типография

The 16th State Publishing Typography Workshop was located in Moscow at 9 Trekhprudnyi Lane. Prior to being nationalized, the workshop was the A.A. Levinson Partnership. Levenson's firm dates to 1881 when Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Levenson (1855-1922) acquired a speed press and began his printing operation. The firm expanded to 450 workers by 1913, and at one point, it operated six of Moscow's eighteen high-speed presses. During World War I, Levinson's business was subjugated under the Zemgorom (Chief Army Supply ...

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Publisher: State Publishing House, Moscow — Государственное издательство, Москва

In May 1919, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee created the State Publishing House of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic), Moscow. The State Publishing House had its origins in Imperial Russia as the Royal Print Yard in St. Petersburg. As the Red Army controlled more provinces and cities in former Imperial Russia, the State Publishing House developed offices outside St. Petersburg. The State Publishing House, Moscow is sometimes cited in historical references as the "...