The Message of the XIII Party Congress (on Cooperation)
About The Message of the XIII Party Congress (on Cooperation)
This silent drawn cartoon is an agitational poster on the 13th Party Congress line about cooperation. It praises joint work and calls for a fight against private traders. It does not follow a private story, and the circulating copy carries no director credit.
More about The Message of the XIII Party Congress (on Cooperation)
The Russian title is Chto skazal XIII syezd partii o kooperatsii. Film.ru describes it as a silent short animated poster of 1925, produced at Goskino, in praise of collective work and against traders. The Wikimedia file runs 3 minutes 54 seconds and lists no director. The 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) had met in Moscow from 23 to 31 May 1924.
Themes
Background
The 13th Congress, in Moscow in May 1924, set cooperation of the peasantry as the main work in the countryside and called for state credit to push private traders and moneylenders out of the village.
Making
The short is a drawn poster rather than a newsreel of the hall. The congress it cites had already closed in May 1924.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A copy of 3 minutes 54 seconds is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The English file title on Wikimedia Commons is Results of the 13th Party Congress (of Cooperation).
- A YouTube description of the cartoon dates the congress to 23–31 May 1924 and lists its decisions on a commissariat of internal trade, cheap credit for peasants, and cooperation as the main rural task.
- Film.ru credits Dziga Vertov as director. The copy on Wikimedia Commons carries no director name.
- Wikidata classes the film as animation, not as a filmed record of the congress sessions.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1925. Что сказал XIII съезд партии о кооперации.webm)