Use Restrictions

The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Kukryniksy Russian caricature poster collection, C0286, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Thomas Hill in 2009.

Processing Information

Processing completed by Jordan Patty in 2016. EAD markup completed by Jordan Patty in 2016. Finding aid updated by Amanda Menjivar in November 2024.

Biographical Information

The Kukryniksy was the name taken on by Soviet Union artists Porfirii Nikitich Krylov (1902–1990), Mikhail Vasil'evich Kupriianov (1903–1991), and Nikolai Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1903–2000) during their long career of collaboration.

Scope and Content

12 posters featuring the work of Kukryniksy, a group of Soviet Union cartoonists. The posters are in a cover that is dated 1977, but undated individual posters were probably created in the early 1970s and prior to that. The subject matter is largely related to the Cold War. All of the words in the posters are in Cyrillic script.

Arrangement

This is a single folder collection.

Related Material

The Special Collections Research Center holds other political poster collections including the East German poster collection political series and the French Communist Party poster collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Art
• Cold War
• Political posters
• Propaganda
• Soviet Union