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title: Ленин. Спи, вождь! Спи, учитель. Спи, боец (Lenin. Sleep, Leader! Sleep, Teacher. Sleep, Fighter)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/spi-vozhd-lenin-memorial-poster-1925/
description: A memorial sheet framed in black and red banners and wreaths. Lenin's portrait fills the centre; around it are vignettes from youth to the Civil War and…
section: Collection
---

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[![Ленин. Спи, вождь! Спи, учитель. Спи, боец (Lenin. Sleep, Leader! Sleep, Teacher. Sleep, Fighter)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/spi-vozhd-lenin-memorial-poster-1925.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/spi-vozhd-lenin-memorial-poster-1925.jpg)

# Ленин. Спи, вождь! Спи, учитель. Спи, боец (Lenin. Sleep, Leader! Sleep, Teacher. Sleep, Fighter)

A memorial sheet framed in black and red banners and wreaths. Lenin's portrait fills the centre; around it are vignettes from youth to the Civil War and a sickroom scene, with columns of printed biography and a 'Communist oath' at left and right. The banner reads 'Lenin 1870-1924, sleep, leader!'. Ranking the dead leader as teacher and fighter and attaching the party's pledges to his name is the transfer tell.

## Text on the object

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

```
ЛЕНИН
[birth date, illegible in part] 1870 — 21/I 1924
СПИ ВОЖДЬ!
СПИ УЧИТЕЛЬ
СПИ БОЕЦ

[illegible: biographical text, medical bulletin and 'Communist oath' columns, small type at left and right]

Издание газеты «Рабочий Край»
Плакат исполнен Художественным агентством «РЕКЛАМПРОВИНЦИЯ»
Типо-литография «Красный Октябрь» Т-во «Основа» г. Ив.-Вознесенск
Тираж 15.000 экз.
```

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

```
LENIN
[birth date, illegible in part] 1870 — 21 Jan. 1924
SLEEP, LEADER!
SLEEP, TEACHER
SLEEP, FIGHTER

[illegible: small-type columns]

Published by the newspaper 'Rabochiy Krai'
Poster executed by the Artistic Agency 'Reklamprovintsiya'
Krasny Oktyabr typo-lithography, 'Osnova' partnership, Ivanovo-Voznesensk
Edition 15,000 copies
```

Only the large lettering and the imprint lines were read; the body columns are not legible at 960 pixels.

[← "Femmes ! ... exigez la paix immédiate au Maroc" (PCF sticker, Rif war, 1925)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pcf-papillon-femmes-paix-immediate-maroc-1925/) [Tened confianza, seréis peruanos (Have Faith, You Will Be Peruvians) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tened-confianza-tacna-arica-mundial-1925/)

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