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Poster Plakat

IzoGiz (State Publishing House of Fine Art), Moscow

Изогиз (Государственное издательство изобразительного искусства), Москва

The history of IzoGiz begins with the formation of Ogiz, the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. In 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz to centralize publishing under a monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, to streamline and control publishing production and its output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ordered certain publications be separated from Ogiz. The separation principally affected technical manuals and propaganda material issued by the publisher. For example, posters, art magazines and artistic books were placed under Izogiz (Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo), the fine arts section of Ogiz. In 1963, Izogiz was merged with the publishing house, "Soviet Artist" (Sovetskii khudozhnik).

PP 033: Share His Expertise With Everyone! PP 036: Glory to the Motherland of October! PP 037: Glory to the Defenders of October! PP 041: To the Power of the Soviets. Their Union Was Forged in the Fire of October! PP 043: Perform! PP 088: The good of the nation-The Law of Socialism. There is no exploitation, oppression or unemployment under socialism! [Right panel with U.S. worker] Exploitation, oppression, unemployment–The Wolfish Law of Capitalism. This is reality for millions of workers in capitalistic countries... PP 093: KPSS (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) PP 095: 1917 - 1953. We are lighting fireworks to celebrate our labor gains! PP 097: Exhibit of achievements in the national economy of the USSR PP 098: The 20th congress of the communist party of the Soviet Union [KPSS] Beyond the plan. Let's present our labor achievements! PP 099: From communist Saturday volunteers to building communism! PP 100: We will fulfill the task of the party! The tasks that the Central Committee gave for the sixth five-year plan are large. They will ask of the party and of all people great efforts and strong labor. PP 101: The nation and the party are one! PP 102: 1917-1957. Glory to the communist party of the Soviet Union! PP 107: Let's expand socialist competition widely for the increase of grain production! Let's fulfill the party directives! PP 113: Two lines. The general line. The line of general intervention. PP 116: KPSS [Communist Party of the Soviet Union] our strength is in unity! PP 117: Our knowledge and strength… the People! PP 121: The Building of Communism – a business of the hands, the minds and the energy of the nation. Glory to the KPSS (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)! PP 123: To Communism! In one group toward a common goal! PP 165: Our friendship is our strength! PP 170: Forward, to the victory of communism! PP 172: KPSS [Communist Party of the Soviet Union] PP 174: Fulfill the seven-year plan! PP 177: Glory to Labor! PP 179: Fulfill the directives of the twenty-second congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union! Forward to the victory of communism! PP 181: 1944-1959 Long live the People’s Republic of Albania! PP 182: Wherever a court is sold to capitalists, there the people’s rights are trampled! PP 183: Glory to female soviet workers! PP 185: The friendship of nations is a great power. The party has cultivated the friendship of nations! PP 187: Long live the friendship of the peoples of the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic! PP 191: In their country: You will not suffocate or kill this song! In our country: Youth begins the song of friendship! PP 192: Peace -- That is Happiness PP 195: 1917-1954 Glory to the motherland of October! PP 196: Glory to Lenin’s Komsomol PP 198: Our victories of labor are for the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union! PP 201: Our national dreams have been realized! PP 209: Forward to Communism! PP 213: To the soviet people – the first builder of socialism. Glory! PP 215: Let peaceful life for the brotherly family of cooperative farmers grow under the sun, and let the soviet fatherland bloom, my happy motherland! PP 217: Glory to the fighters of great October! PP 240: To a ringing pioneer march we are going to help our elders! PP 265: (Top section in Spanish) Liberty to the People of Spain! (Bottom section) Victory to the People of Spain! PP 269: 1905 Glory to the Fighters of the Revolution PP 272: Higher, Farther, Faster! PP 274: Glory to the soviet people, the builder of communism!  PP 281: In a single front toward communism! PP 300: Our goal is Communism! PP 307: Be glorified, our free fatherland, the reliable foundation of the friendship of peoples!  PP 310: Glory to the soviet people!  PP 320: Long live the union of workers and farmers, the base of soviet power! PP 329: USSR. For universal and complete disarmament! PP 446: Long live the unending, unbreakable friendship and cooperation between the Soviet and Cuban people! PP 447: Soviet Aviation – The Pride Of The People! PP 449: 10 Years of the German Democratic Republic [GDR] Brotherly greetings to the G.D.R. workers who are building socialism! PP 463: Capital Expenses For The Year 1932. 21,000,000,000 rubles [Partial translation] PP 481: We are the Young Owners of the Land! PP 510: Long live the 37th Anniversary of October! PP 511: Let’s increase from 1951 to 1955 the number of places in pre-schools by 20%, in kindergartens by 40%. Grow up healthy! PP 512: Long live the sun! Peace, let darkness disappear! PP 513: My [machine] part is strong and precise and it will serve the motherland! PP 514: USSR - Vietnam. The distance is far but our hearts are close! PP 516: Long live Czechoslovakian-Soviet friendship! PP 517: Soviet-Hungarian friendship is unbreakable! PP 518: Long live Soviet-Vietnamese friendship! PP 519: Let’s strengthen Soviet-Mongolian friendship! PP 522: Serve your motherland excellently! PP 529: To live, study and fight as the great Lenin asked. PP 531: Labor – Peace. Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood, Happiness PP 547: Peace PP 551: 1917-1953. Glory to the Great October! PP 552: Freedom for all African people! PP 570: We stand up for peace! To War we say: No! Peace! PP 590: To those who are for peace, we will extend our hand! PP 628: The people of Cuba will hold their freedom against enemy attack! PP 641: 1918-1958 I’m guarding the peace of my beloved country PP 649: Be prepared to be drafted into the Red Army. Organize Socialist competition and shock-work in military training. PP 650: Glory to the party of Lenin! Glory to the hero-people, to the creator-people! PP 656: A Pioneer’s tie burns bright and with its three corners is the slogan: Great friendship with Komsomol and the Party, the link between three generations is solid as granite! PP 664: Everybody to the reelections. Let’s strengthen the Soviets, the organs of the dictatorship of the proletariat PP 676: The Soviet Union is fighting for peace in the front lines and is leading the nations toward a bright future! PP 739: March 16th. Vote! PP 746: Our Duty – To Study Excellently! PP 777: Increase your fathers’ glory! Preserve the fleet traditions! PP 779: Kind-hearted, smiling gaze . . . Lenin forever children’s best friend! PP 823: Lenin is with us! PP 833: The Motherland Calls to the East! PP 834: Armor robust, motors strong – Tankers guard the country of the Soviets! PP 864: Glory to the Sons of the Party! PP 876: Happy Holiday, Comrades! PP 877: Young Michurinites! Skillfully fulfill the maxims of the great transformer of nature! PP 879: Glory to the First Cosmonaut, Iu. A. Gagarin! PP 882: Hold the Colonizers to Account! PP 895: Glory to the Builders of Communism! With the victory of socialism, the ancient friendship of the Russian, Ukrainian, and other peoples of our country has transformed into a powerful, unstoppable force, into one of the driving forces of the development of Soviet society. PP 899: Long Live Soviet Youth! PP 900: We’re gathering a million tons of scrap metal! PP 906: The ideas of Leninism are triumphing! PP 909: Learn, like Lenin! PP 930: We will be worthy companions of the seven-year plan! PP 965: The butchers of Spain will not escape the peoples' wrath! PP 986: On the Leninist Course to the Victory of Communism! PP 997: Twenty-second Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [CPSU]: From Socialism to Communism
. PP 1025: Glory to the Brave! PP 1059: We should judge for ourselves. Citizens are obliged without exception to participate in justice and in the governance of the country. --V. I. Lenin PP 1061: To you, Motherland – our bread from the Virgin Lands! PP 1064: Honor Roll for the Collective Farm “New Life” We will greet March 8th with Excellent Performance Indicators in Work! PP 1065: Agriculture for the Seven-Year Plan - 1,000,000 Tractors! PP 1078: Cinema- The Most Popular Form of Art! [Partial translation] PP 1088: We Raised our Army in Battles PP 1111: Accept the gifts of May Day PP 1123: Strengthen the health of the people from year to year! PP 1124: Good Welcome! PP 1206: 300th Anniversary of Ukrainian and Russian Reunification. Our strength is in brotherly friendship!

Sources & Citations

Mandel' B. R. (2014). Knizhnoye delo i istoriya knigi DirectMedia: Moskva. (PP. 287-288, Ogiz general history)
Omskii oblastnoi muzei izobrazitelʹnykh iskusstv im. M.A. Vrubelya. (2004). Dekabr'skiye dialogi: materialy nauchnoy konferentsii pamyati F.V. Melekhina. ( Journal, Vol. 6, P. 161, Izogiz 1963 merger with Soviet Artist Publishing)
Rosenfeld, A. (1999). Defining Russian graphic arts: From Diaghilev to Stalin, 1898-1934. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press. (P. 299, Ogiz history and Izogiz)
Bonnell, V. E. (1999). Iconography of power: Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin. Berkeley: University of California Press. (PP. 6, 54, Centralization of publishing from 1930-‘31)

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