Лучшие работницы и крестьянки — в Ленинскую партию! (Best Women Workers and Peasant Women: into the Lenin Party!)
Lenin stands behind a red-draped rostrum with one arm outstretched, between a woman in a polka-dot headscarf reading a red book and a woman at a power loom. Below, a line of women in headscarves queues at a desk marked 'Enrolment in the R.K.P.'. The dead leader's figure and name ('Lenin Party') are made to vouch for a Party membership drive aimed at women: the transfer tell.
- Date
- 1925
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- State Publishing House, Leningrad branch (Gosizdat / Lengiz); artist not credited
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Alexei Rykov
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan from the Russian State Library), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1925, before 1931; Commons: PD reproduction)
Unknown artist, State Publishing House, Leningrad, 1925. Russian State Library, via Wikimedia Commons. Basis checked on the Commons file page: published 1925, before 1931, in the USSR; Commons: faithful reproduction of a PD work; scan from the Russian State Library.
Text on the object
ЛУЧШИЕ РАБОТНИЦЫ И КРЕСТЬЯНКИ — В ЛЕНИНСКУЮ ПАРТИЮ! ЗАПИСЬ В ЧЛЕНЫ Р.К.П. [illegible: publisher's imprint and plate number at lower left] [illegible: printer's line, edition figure and address at lower right]
BEST WOMEN WORKERS AND PEASANT WOMEN — INTO THE LENIN PARTY! ENROLMENT AS MEMBERS OF THE R.K.P. [Russian Communist Party] [illegible] [illegible]
The headline and the desk sign are read from the image; the small imprint lines at the foot are not legible at the hosted size.
