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
- Made by
- Agitation department, Yerevan (Soviet Armenia; parent body not named on the print); artist not identified
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Alexei Rykov
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Labor, War and the military
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, 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
ԿՌԻՎ ՊԱԼԱՏՆԵՐԻՆ !! ԽԱՂԱՂՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ ԽՐԾԻԹՆԵՐԻՆ [small printer's imprint line at bottom right, illegible]
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.
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