Boris Efimov

Boris Efimovich Efimov (Russian: Борис Ефимович Ефимов) (born 28 September 1900 in Kiev) is a Soviet political cartoonist and propaganda artist best known for his political caricatures of Adolf Hitler and other Nazis produced before and during World War II. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... Location Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted. ... Politics is the process by which groups make decisions. ... Cartoonist Jack Elrod at work. ... An Australian anti-conscription propaganda poster from World War One U.S. propaganda poster, which warns against civilians sharing information on troop movements (National Archives) The much-imitated 1914 Lord Kitchener Wants You! poster Swedish Anti-Euro propaganda for the referendum of 2003. ... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practising the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ... A common caricature of Charles Darwin focuses on his beard, eyebrows, and baldness, while often giving him the features of an ape or monkey. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

He was born as Boris Fridland, the second son of a Jewish shoemaker. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Białystok, where he grew up alongside his older brother Mikhail. During the First World War, his family fled the advancing German armies and returned to Kiev, where he pursued legal studies, only to be interrupted by the October Revolution when he was drafted into the Kievian Red Army dealing with subsequent turmoil. He began to express his emotions through caricatures of politicians, the first of which were published in 1919 and circulated in the Kievian Red Army. BiaÅ‚ystok (pronounced: , Belarusian: , Lithuanian: , Yiddish ביאַליסטאָק) is the largest city (pop. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Red October redirects here. ...

From 1920 to 1921, Efimov designed posters and brochures for the communist organisation Agitprop, finally moving to Moscow after his brother, who worked as an editor for Pravda, offered him a job drawing political cartoons. His artistic talent, directed mainly against the "capitalist west", gained him prominence, and his work started appearing in such titles as Izvestia, Krokodil and Ogonyok, a magazine founded by his brother Mikhail Koltsov (1898-1940). 1924 saw the publication of his first book, Politicheskiye Karikatury, which included a foreword from Leon Trotsky, a risky move considering Stalin's antipathy. It therefore met with initial disapproval from the publisher, Yuri Steklov, who would later pay with his life for not having Trotsky's words removed. As the 1920s waned, Efimov managed to avoid Stalin's wrath by portraying Trotsky as a traitor and fascist, despite their friendship. Agitprop poster by Vladimir Mayakovsky. ... The front page of an issue of Pravda. ... Modern Izvestia logo Old Izvestia logo. ... This 1930 poster reads: . Krokodil (i. ... Ogonyok is one of the oldest Russian weekly illustrated magazines, issued since December 21 (December 9 (O.S.) 1899. ... Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov (Russian: Михаил Ефимович Кольцов) (June 12 [O.S. May 31] 1898, Kiev - February 2, 1940 or April 4, 1942, Moscow), born Mikhail Efimovich Friedland (Михаил Ефимович Фридлянд), was a Soviet journalist. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ...   (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий, Lev Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) (November 7 [O.S. October 26] 1879 – August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Лев Давидович Бронштейн), was a Ukrainian-born Jew, Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. ...

Following the war, he travelled to the Nuremberg Trials with the task of caricaturizing the Nazi defendants. He was then ordered to poke fun at the Western powers in what was transforming into the Cold War. He went on to become the chief editor at Agitprop, and cooperated with Pravda until the 80s. He published an autobiography, Moi Vek, for his centennial, and currently resides in Moscow. The Süddeutsche Zeitung announces The Verdict in Nuremberg. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ...

He received USSR State Prizes in 1950 and 1951 and was named People's Painter of the USSR in 1967. Stalin Prize medal State Prize medal The USSR State Prize (Russian:Госуда́рственная пре́мия СССР) was the Soviet Unions highest civilian honour. ... Maria Yermolova, first Peoples Artist of the Republic (1920). ...

In a 2005 interview to the Russian TV Yefimov recalled his experiences in Petrograd during the Russian Revolution, admitting that he had changed his real name in order to dissimulate his Jewish origins. While his name seems to be best known in English as "Efimov", an alternative transliteration of "Yefimov" is also sometimes used (and is much closer to the true sound of his name in Russian). Saint Petersburg  listen (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991... The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political and social upheavals in Russia, involving first the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy, and then the overthrow of the liberal and moderate-socialist Provisional Government, resulting in the establishment of Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

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External link

• 1998 Interview for Red Files, a PBS Documentary