#agitprop

Task Number One was established at the 16th Congress of the VKP(B) to create a second coal-metallurgy industrial zone. [Top photo of Stalin, at left]“In the course of the newest growth of our economy it has happened that the coal-metallurgy zone (in Ukraine) has become insufficient for us. What is new is that while developing this zone in different ways in the future, we must start immediately a second coal-metallurgy zone. This zone should be the Ural-Kuznetsk Plant….” — From Comrade Stalin’s speech at the 16th Congress of the Party.

Black and white photos at left are highlights of speeches at the 16th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) held in Moscow in 1930. The second photo and quote comes from Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev who died 1935 and the third photo and quote comes from Sergo Ordzhonikidze who killed himself in 1937 yet his death was reported as heart failure. [First red banner at right]: “We will fulfill the resolutions of the 16th Congress of the VKP(B) [Second red banner at right] We will produce 17 million tons of cast iron by the end of the 5-year plan.” [Third red banner at right]: “The coal-metallurgy base will be created on schedule.”

Soviet poster from 1930.

“Bolster Our Defense with Whatever You Can!” (Krepi chem mozhesh’ oboronu!).

Maquette for the inside cover of the journal «Za rubezhom» (Abroad), no. 2c. 1930.

“The steps of the Red Army are formidable! The enemy will be destroyed in his lair!”, by Viktor Deni, 1945.

This poster was published two months prior to the Soviet liberation of Berlin.

The flag at the top of the Berlin Reichstag reads “World Conquest”, the crest below reads “Enslavement of Peoples”, and below that it reads “Fascism”. The Reichstagʼs columns are marked: “Goering”;“Goebbels”;“Himmler”;“Hitler”.

“Trade unions are the backbone of Soviet power. Members of trade unions, all for the elections of the Baksovet!”

Published in Russian and Azerbajani by the Cultural department of ASPS, 1924, (Baku: State typolithography of Azpolygraphtrest VSNKh).

“Go on a preschool trip. Bring up the communist change. Build a new life.”

Soviet poster from 1930.

“Drive out the kulaks – Elect the poor and middle peasants to the soviets.”

[Panel 1 of poster reads]: “How in the village of Kalistratka, all the peasants, without a looking back, elected the kulaks… . and shows how that lead to things going to hell in a handbasket. There was no bread. Then when the chased the kulaks out, everyone got grain back, had bread and a nice prosperous life.”

UkROSTA (All-Ukrainian Bureau of the Russian Telegraph Agency), 1921.

“How to study your readers?”

“Librarian, study your readers! Studying the reader and his interests helps the librarian to lead readers, gives the center the ability to send needed books to localities, and publishing houses to publish them. Write down book requests, write down exactly what the reader said about the book, get written reviews from readers, use charts and statistics, observe what books your readers have in the tea house, at home etc, keep a reader diary, hold reading outloud sessions.”

Soviet poster from 1926.

The cover of the magazine «Pioneer» No. #6, 1924.

May Day, Leningrad 1931. A constructivist set design depicting the global forces of reaction — a capitalist with a Howitzer coming out of his hat, an Orthodox priest mounted on top, a policeman straddling a swastika — serves as the centerpiece for a parade outside the Winter Palace in Leningrad.

Further reading here.

“The woman worker builds cooperation. Woman worker! The October revolution made you the freest citizen in the world! Make full use of your rights through cooperation!”

Soviet poster from 1923.

“Forward to Communism!”

“Glory to heroic women, fighters for happiness for society!”

“From primitive to modern Communism” — a very detailed and artful poster from Soviet Georgia, 1924.

“Self education is the road to knowledge. Knowledge is the path to Communism. Every beginning reader-worker should read these books. The first circle of reading”

Soviet poster from 1926.

Sadly I cannot read the actual book recommendations.

Vasilii Vasil’evich Mansurov was born in December 1901 in the village of Kukarka, Ianskii uezd, Viatskaia Gubernia into the family of a Russian baker. He completed an rural elementary school and from 1915-1917 the boy worked at a private shop in the village of Kukarka. From 1917-1918, Mansurov was an unskilled laborer in a private enterprise. From 1918-1919, he was assistant machinist/smith in repair shops.

He served in the Red Army and was an active participant in the Civil War. After demobilization Mansurov worked in the city of Sovetsk as an instructor of the Komsomol from 1923-1924. He then went to work as the executive secretary of the Sovetskii Volkom of the Komsomol and then a propagandist in the Sovetskii Party Volkom from 1924-1928. It was at this time (1927) that he joined the party. Mansurov worked as the chairman of the board of the credit partnership from 1928-1930. Then he became the head of propaganda department of the Sovetskiidistrict party committee from 1930-1931. Then Mansurov moved to the village of Kiknur whereupon he took up the post of head of the agitmass department of the Kiknurskii raikom in 1931. He then became the responsible editor of the district newspaper, a post he held from 1931-1934. From 1934-1937, Mansurov worked as the chairman of the RIK. He was removed from that post by the obkom (likely as a result of accusations of mismanagement and supporting Kulaks). Mansurov was transferred back to Sovetsk where he worked as the director of the trade department from 1937-1938. He was then head of the city soviet’s housing department in 1938. He worked as a teacher at the regional school for collective farm personnel from 1938-1939. And then he was the deputy and later executive editor of the district newspaper “The Way of Ilyich” from 1939-1942. Vasilii Mansurov was then drafted into the army and was sent to the front. He was killed in battle on Febuary 19, 1942.

Politicheskie Lidery, p 312.

hey everyone! look it’s stickers of revolutionary unionist propaganda! with kittens!

design your own picket line of working-class cats shutting it down!

worry your friends and colleagues with mildly aggressive agitational material!

if this is a good idea let me know. i really enjoyed designing these stickers so i’ll be making more if for no other reason than to have another creative outlet.

Stickers – Wobbly Dev

msaprildaniels:

via@queersatanic

[ID: A heavily black and white ominous photo of an anime girl superimposed over a picture of a burning building. Text reads “if abortion isn’t safe, neither are you” /ID]

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