Poster: "The redundant staff must step aside!" Boris Semenov, A. Shkliarinskii, 1974.
HOLLIS Record
Our collection contains 80 government-commissioned posters created by Fighting Pencil members, dating from the late Soviet period (1950-1991) and lampooning bureaucratic abuses and inefficiencies in offices, farms, construction sites, and other state-run enterprises.
Twelve covers of the satirical magazine Krokodil and numerous clippings Work by artists including B. Semenov, V. Kunnap, G. Valk, V. Travin, and others Poetry by A. Shkliarinskii, V. Suslov, G. Tumarinson, S. Smirnovskii, Zh. Efimovskii, and others.
The collection is fully digitized.
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