Lot 69
"Farmer Woman, Join the Collective!" – Yiddish Color Poster – Russia
"Poyerte, Tret Arayn In Kollectiv" ["Farmer Woman, Join the Collective!"], Soviet propaganda poster calling on Jewish women to join the "kolkhoz" (Soviet collective farm). Moscow: Центриздат (Tsentrizdat), commissioned by the Soviet Union's Alliance of Collective Farmers' Unions, [late 1920s – early 1930s]. Yiddish (title and information regarding publisher printed in Russian at bottom of poster).
Color lithograph illustration. Divided into two parts: an "old-fashioned" non-collective farm on the left, showing the cramped interior of a granary, with chickens, roosters, a cow, and a horse; and a spacious "modern" chicken coop, conforming with Soviet collective farming methods. Alongside the illustration are explanations in Yiddish regarding the various stages involved in raising chickens and the advantages of collective farming. The illustration is signed in the plate (in Russian): "Петр Афанасьев" (Pyotr Afanasyev).
The poster was printed in 500 copies.
72X55 cm. Good condition. Few stains, including minor dampstains to lower corners. Fold lines and minor creases. Minute tears to edges. Fold lines and some parts of edges professionally repaired with thin acid-free paper.
