Large format measuring 20 ¼" x 27", printed on thick sturdy cardboard-like paper. Published by the State Publishing House of Political Literature, circulation unknown. The poster is part of the 12th edition of a large series of propaganda visual aids in 14 editions, entitled History of the USSR published from 1939 until 1952. The text under the header belongs to Andrei Zhdanov, Soviet politician and "propagandist-in-chief," responsible for developing the Soviet cultural policy. It says "Only Soviet literature could and did become in reality so forward, ideological and revolutionary, - flesh of the flesh, bone of the bone of our socialist creation."

The eight portraits under the centerpiece painting present the faces of some of the pillars of Soviet literature, writers, and poets whose names and faces were indelibly engraved on the minds of every Soviet schoolchild - Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexey Tolstoy, and so on. All of them very talented, some of them true believers in socialism, all of them leading very privileged lives for propaganda of the Soviet state and its leaders.

In excellent condition, very clean and free of any significant wear.