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EBERMAN, M. Rabbit Breeding and Upkeep, 1931
EBERMAN, M. Rabbit Breeding and Upkeep, 1931
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Razvedeniye i soderzhaniye krolikov [Rabbit Breeding and Upkeep], a poster by Maximilian Eberman. OGIZ–IZOGIZ, Moscow–Leningrad, 1931. 89 x 64 cm.

Rabbit breeding suddenly became a hot topic in 1931–1932, when the State started looking for non–traditional ways to solve the problem of food shortages in the cities, and came up with the concept of developing local food sources for industrial regions. Workers were encouraged to start garden plots and raise hens, rabbits and even pigs; at the height of the 1931–1932 rabbit–raising craze, the Moscow Soviet even adopted a decree requiring every city school to maintain a rabbit hutch. Trotsky in exile mocked these initiatives, seeing in them an admission that Stalin’s rapid industrialization and forced collectivization campaigns had damaged the Soviet economy: “Pravda is now publishing photographs of a worker woman feeding her own pig! Unbelievable! We were taught that under Socialism working women will be freed from house slavery, and now we are told that owning a pig is the way to strengthen the bonds between the workers and Socialism."

Moscow painter and graphic artist Maximilian Eberman studied under Arkhipov, and took part in the exhibitions held by various Moscow art groups in 1910–1926. An internet image search came up with a number of his works, including a large panneau for the 1918 festivities in Moscow. The artist also worked as a book illustrator. Eberman was clearly also active in the field of poster production—the online catalog of RGALI archives hold a number of his posters and his poster artworks (both in his personal archive, and in the archives of fellow Moscow artists). The archive would be a great source for additional information about the artist, but one cannot easily access its contents without traveling to Moscow.
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