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Poster Plakat

State Publishing House, Peterburg [St. Petersburg, Russia]

Государственное издательство, петербург

The State Publishing House had its origins in Imperial Russia as the Royal Print Yard in St. Petersburg. The Soviets nationalized the print yard in 1917 and requisitioned its presses. Out of the requisitioning emerged the Publishing House of the Petrograd (St. Petersburg) Soviet formed in the winter of 1917 by the Literary and Publishing Department of People's Commissariat for Education.

PP 091: Long Live the Third Communist International! PP 126: A book is nothing else but a man addressing the public. PP 473: Non-Members! Capitalists of the whole world want to hang the worker class. Don’t sit on the sidelines. Enroll in the Russian Communist Party to defeat the enemies of the proletariat with united forces. PP 764: Reading is one of the duties of a person PP 915: The life of the literate. There lived an illiterate peasant. He did not read clever books. Life led him nearly to tears, Every day everything was a bad break! Every day he toiled for nothing, Life carried him along, like a blind person! He could not read a page, About how to plow his land. And his labor brought In very scanty crops! [Partial translation] PP 957: May 1, 1921 Exhibition of the Petrograd Provincе Department of Education [in the] Building of the Great Stock Exchange, No. 1 Tuchkov Embankment. PP 972: The illiterate is just like the blind – misfortune and bad luck awaits him everywhere. PP 984: Long live the Proletarian Holiday of the First of May PP 999: Knowledge will break the chains of slavery. PP 1201: May 1st
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