Za prochniy mir! [For Lasting Peace Against The Warmongers] Artwork by B. Efimov. Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1950

Size: 27.5 x 23.5 cm; [63] (59 ill).

In original publisher’s hardcover. In Russian. Minor wear on edges and corners. General condition: very good.

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A collection of anti-USA and anti-Hitler cartoons by the great Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov [1900-2008]. The anthology starts in the 1930s with the rise of Hitler and carries forward to the late 1940s, attacking the Marshall Plan, Wall Street fat cats, the Western alliance, and the U.S. position in Korea. By contrast, and not surprisingly, the Soviet Union is portrayed heroically, having single-handedly defeated Hitler. Given the preponderance of Wall Street financiers in the cartoons, Wall Street appears to be behind Western imperialism and belligerence and even abetted the rise of Hitler. The book opens with a quote from "J. Stalin" and contains 59 cartoons, mostly in black-and-white but some containing deep red, representing, of course, the supposed nobility of the Soviet Union and its allies.

Boris Efimovitch Efimov (1900-2008) - Soviet and Russian caricaturist, academician of Academy of Arts USSR. Known as book illustrator (of books by M. Zoshenko, J. Gashek, I. Petrov, M. Saltykov-Shedrin etc) as well as author of political and historical satire. In the book are presented anti-fascist and anti-capitalist cartoons.