Oktyabriny (Octobering) Artist: Unknown
Printer: 1-ia Obraztsovaia tipo-litografiia Gosizdata (Moscow, active 20th century)
Publisher: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo (St. Petersburg)

1928

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Color offset lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 12 5/8 × 16 3/4 in. (32 × 42.5 cm)

Credit Line

The Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, Russian Poster Collection, curated with Kevin Begos

Accession Number

2018.136.59

Geography

Made in Moscow, Russia

Culture

Soviet, Moscow

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Allan Chasanoff Collection, New York, to 2018; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

didactic art, offset lithographs, political art, posters, propaganda

Subject

children (people by age group) communism families mothers women

Inscriptions

on the wall: \r\nReligion is the opium of the people\r\nLong live the new way of life\r\nSoviet power brings [word obscured] to women \r\n\r\n[poem describing the event - early Soviet name-giving ceremony]\r\n\r\nlast stanza:\r\nIf you want to build a new way of life, \r\nYou absolutely must remember\r\nThat a baby of the Octoberites \r\nIs a conscious citizen\r\n\r\nState press, Moscow and Leningrad, 1928

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