Table-calendar for 1920

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Artist/Maker	Publishers for the National Commissariat for Agriculture (publisher) Unknown (maker)
Place of origin	U.S.S.R. (made)

Propaganda wallsheet comparing Tsarist and Soviet Russia, issued by the Soviet government. Lettered in Cyrillic round the emblem of the Soviet Republic Publishers of the National commissariat of Agriculture, Proletariat of the World Unite, and in the lower left corner of the sheet 2nd state Lithograph Grasnaya Street 8 P.g.2.

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Category	Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Table-calendar for 1920 (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph
Brief description	Propaganda wallsheet comparing Tsarist and Soviet Russia in the form of a Calendar for 1920
Physical description	Propaganda wallsheet comparing Tsarist and Soviet Russia, issued by the Soviet government. Lettered in Cyrillic round the emblem of the Soviet Republic Publishers of the National commissariat of Agriculture, Proletariat of the World Unite, and in the lower left corner of the sheet 2nd state Lithograph Grasnaya Street 8 P.g.2.
Dimensions	Height: 36cm Width: 56.1cm 36 x 56.1 cm
Object history	The calendar lists festivals in the Christian Church such as Christmas Day and Baptism of Christ, in January, the Annunciation and Easter in April, Transfiguration of Christ and Assumption of the Virgin in August, but it also lists the Day of the Paris Commune (March 18th), Feast of the Workers of the World (May 1st) and the Day of the Proletarian Revolution (November 7th).
Production	Anonymous: Posters: USSR for the Bolshevik Government 8 Grasnaya Street P.q.2. 1919-20
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.395-1988

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Record created	November 24, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O173835/table-calendar-for-1920-poster-unknown/

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