"Pechat' dolzhna sluzhit' orudiem sotsialisticheskogo stroitel'stva . . . " V.I. Lenin ("The Press Should Serve as an Instrument of Socialist Construction . . . " V.I. Lenin) Artist: Yuri Kershin (Russian, born 1925)
Artist: A. Biriukov (Russian(?), active late 20th century)
Printer: Ordena Lenina tipografiia gazety "Pravda" imeni V.I. Lenina
Publisher: Izdatel'stvo "Pravda"

1987

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Color offset lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 19 5/16 × 27 3/16 in. (49 × 69 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2018.136.760

Geography

Made in Moscow, Russia

Culture

Soviet, Moscow

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Allan Chasanoff Collection, New York, to 2018; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
Not Assigned
Additional information

Object/Work type

didactic art, lithographs, political art, posters, propaganda

Subject

communism

Inscriptions

right: different newspaper banners, top to bottom: \r\nPravda ("Truth"), Organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Newspaper founded May 5th, 1912 by Lenin. \r\nSoviet Russia, Organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR\r\nRural life, Newspaper of the Central Committee of the CPSU\r\nSocialist Industry, Newspaper of the Central Committee of the CPSU \r\nEconomic newspaper, daily of the Central Committee of the CPSU \r\nConstruction Newspaper, Newspaper of the Central Committee of the CPSU \r\nSoviet Culture, Newspaper of the Central Committee of the CPSU \r\nKomsomol Pravda ("Truth of the Young Communist League"), Organ of the Central Committee of the Komsomol \r\nOverseas\r\nNew Life \r\n\r\nSubscriptions are accepted at agencies and offices of the "Printing Union," liaison offices and public distributors of the press in the work place \r\n\r\nLL: artists: Y. Kershin, A. Biriukov \r\nLC: "Pravda" Publisher, Moscow, 1987 \r\nLR: [printing information]

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