Soviet political posters

1) Kolkhozy, stanovites v kolonny udarnykh brigad!, Moscow & Leningrad, Izogiz, 1930, 745 x 1042mm., Izogiz no.463, laid down on paper, card frame

2) Krestyanka, kollektiviziruy dyeryevnyu idi v ryady krasnykh traktoristok! Moscow: Gosudarstvennoye izdatelstvo, 1930, 719 x 1052mm., Glavlit no.A 56276, mounted at head, card frame



3) Komsomolets-kolkhoznik, bud' peredovikom v obladenii tekhnikoy! Krasnaya doska, Moscow & Leningrad, Izogiz, 1932, 716 x 1016mm., printed signature ("izo Ram"), Izogiz no.3610, mounted at head, card frame



4) Polovskoye slovabludiye-vrazhye orudiye, Moscow & Leningrad, Izogiz, 1932, 1022 x 711mm., by Rotov, with verses by Demyan Bedny, printed signature and date ("K.R.31"), Izogiz no.3566, edited by Ryabinkin, mounted at head, card frame



5) Ne svivayte detey svivalnikami i ne nadevayte chepchika. Moscow: Gosmedizdat, no date, 358 x 538mm., by A. Komarov, printed signature at lower right corner, Glavlit no.A 51420, mounted at head, card frame



6) Yeshche vyshe znamya Leninisma, znamya mezhdunarodnoy proletarskoy revolyutsii, Moscow & Leningrad, Izogiz, 1932, 750 x 1074mm., with a quotation from Lenin, Izogiz no.2792, laid down on paper, card frame



7) Sotsialisticheskoye sorevnovanie, sdelshchina, ravnenie na normy luchshikh udarnikov obespechat uspekh Uborki i osennego seva. Moscow & Leningrad: Izogiz, 1931, 1021 x 716mm., Izogiz no.2011, mounted at head, card frame



8) 1 Maya. v boy za pyatiletku, za bolshevistskiye tempy, za oboronu SSSR, za mirovoy Oktyabr'. Moscow & Leningrad: Izogiz, 1931, 1032 x 732mm., Izogiz no. 1280, mounted at head, card frame, small tears and fraying at margins

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These cheerful Soviet scenes of collective farms (Kolkhozy) come from the build-up to the great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933, the "Holodomor", which cost an estimated three million lives.