Author: Kukryniksy [Kukr'iniks'i]
Title: O podzhigateliakh voiny : karikatury
Description: Moskva, Izd. "Pravda, 1957. orig. wrappers. 26x21cm, [85] pages.. Worn. Some spine tears. Some cover soil. Good. ¶ Text entirely in Russian. An album of 42 cold war-era Soviet propaganda political caricatures / cartoons, many in color, ca. 1953- 1956. Unpaginated (85 pages). ["The Kukryniksy were three caricaturists/ cartoonists in the USSR with a recognizable style. ' Kukryniksy' was a collective name derived from the combined names of three caricaturists Mikhail Kupriyanov, (1903-19 91), Porfiri Krylov (1902-1 990), and Nikolai Sokolov (1903-2000) who had met at VKhUTEMAS, a Moscow art school, in the early 1920s. The three began drawing caricatures under the joint signature in 1924....They became nationally famous in the 1930s after the rise of fascism, drawing for Krokodil, the Moscow satirical paper... After the end of the Second World War they continued to depict politics in their series 'Cold War' (194 5-1980s)..." - wikipedia].

Keywords: Russian Political History, Caricature, Caricatures, Cartoons, Cold War, Propaganda, Communist Russia, ,