Gramophone disc cover for 1919 Vladimir Lenin speech In Memory of Sverdlov
Summary
Due to the lack of paper ("paper hanger") in the early ears of the Soveit Russian Repulic it was decided to use the remaining gramophone factories to record political, medicine and cultural propaganda discs to distribute them for free amont mostly illiterate population. This is disc cover is for Lenin speech "In Memory of Comrade Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov", the very first disc with Lenin's speech.
Date
23/01/0191
Source
Wikimeida Commons
Copyright info
public domain