Content note: Soviet collectivisation poster showing priests and kulaks as small caricatured figures being pushed out. This object is shown as it was published. Why

In Our Kolkhoz There Is No Place for Priests and Kulaks (V nashem kolkhoze net mesta popam i kulakam)

A giant red-tinted peasant woman with a rake holds up a flat palm over a tractor team; at her feet three small grey-green men, two holding crosses and one a rosary, are pushed out by the words 'no place'. The title names two groups, priests and kulaks, as people to be excluded from the collective farm: the name-calling and scapegoating tells.

Date: 1930
Period: Interwar
Made by: Association of Artists of the Revolution (AKhR), Moscow; poster by Nikolay Mikhailov
Region: Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country: Soviet Union
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: NGO
Regime: Soviet Union
Leader: Joseph Stalin
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Demonize
Themes: Economy and finance, Religion
Event: Soviet Collectivization
Techniques: Name-calling Scapegoating
Regime: Soviet Union under Stalin
Leader: Joseph Stalin
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons (via redavantgarde.com collection), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (artist d. 1940; PD-old-80; not restored in U.S.)
Nikolay Mikhailov, AKhR, c. 1930. Wikimedia Commons ({{PD-old-auto}}, artist died 1940).

Text on the object

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

В НАШЕМ КОЛХОЗЕ

НЕТ МЕСТА

ПОПАМ и КУЛАКАМ

Главлит А—85.548 Тираж 40.000
По эскизу худ. Михайлова Н. М.
Московское Изд-ское Об-во АХР. Москва, 6. Цветной бульвар, 20.
[illegible: printer's line]
Цена 40 к.

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

IN OUR KOLKHOZ

THERE IS NO PLACE

FOR PRIESTS and KULAKS

Glavlit A-85,548  Print run 40,000
From a sketch by the artist N. M. Mikhailov
Moscow Publishing Society of the AKhR. Moscow, 6 Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 20.
[illegible]
Price 40 k.

The censor's number and the printer's line at the foot are small; the censor number is read as printed but may carry a misread digit.