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title: 'Կռիվ պալատներին!! Խաղաղություն խրծիթներին (War to the Palaces! Peace to the Huts): Armenian-language Soviet poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lenin-war-to-palaces-armenian-1924/
description: A large black-suited figure of Lenin, in a cap against a flat red ground, points left toward a colonnaded building that is crumbling under attack by two…
section: Collection
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# Կռիվ պալատներին!! Խաղաղություն խրծիթներին (War to the Palaces! Peace to the Huts): Armenian-language Soviet poster

A large black-suited figure of Lenin, in a cap against a flat red ground, points left toward a colonnaded building that is crumbling under attack by two soldiers with bayonets, while on the right a peasant sows seed beside a small hut. The Armenian headline reads 'War to the palaces!! Peace to the huts', a slogan of older revolutionary origin here placed in Lenin's outstretched arm, so his image lends its authority to the class binary.

- **Date:** 1924
- **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar)
- **Made by:** Agitation department, Yerevan (Soviet Armenia; parent body not named on the print); artist not identified
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Soviet Union](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=soviet-union)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [Soviet Union](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=soviet-union)
- **Leader:** [Alexei Rykov](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=alexei-rykov)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Կռիվ_պալատներին!!_Խաղաղոխթյոխն_Խրծիթներին_(Война_дворцам!!_Мир_хижинам).jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (published 1924; Commons: PD-Art / PD-old-70; also published before 1931) Unknown artist, Agitation department, Yerevan, 1924; Russian State Library, via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

Original (Armenian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ԿՌԻՎ
ՊԱԼԱՏՆԵՐԻՆ !!
ԽԱՂԱՂՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ
ԽՐԾԻԹՆԵՐԻՆ

[small printer's imprint line at bottom right, illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
WAR
TO THE PALACES !!
PEACE
TO THE HUTS

[small printer's imprint line at bottom right, illegible]
```

The Wikimedia Commons file name spells the second word of the second line differently from the printed text; the transcription follows the letters on the poster. 'Խրծիթ' is read as 'hut' or 'hovel', matching the Russian title in the library catalogue ('Война дворцам!! Мир хижинам'). The imprint line under the image at the bottom right is too small to read at the committed resolution.

[← Die neuen Steuern: Restlose Ausplünderung des Proletariats! (The New Taxes: Total Plundering of the Proletariat!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kpd-die-neuen-steuern-1924/) [London's Underground to Wembley (British Empire Exhibition poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/londons-underground-to-wembley-1924/)

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