| Description | Set of 21 un-numbered posters by artists from the Militant Pencil (Boevoi Karandash) group
Russian transliteration of title: Za i protiv
Publication information: Leningrad / Khudozhnik RSFSR / [?1987]
1. Dostoyanie naroda (Property of the nation)
Artist: B. Tsygankov
Verses: A. Shklyarinskii
2. Trutni (Drones)
Artist: Vladimir Mikhailovich Men'shikov (1933-1994)
Vereses: G. Tumarinson
3. Semeinyi podryad (The domestic contract)
Artist: Vasilii Vasil'evich Dubyago (1938-?)
Verses: V. Suslov
4. Vpered po puti uskoveniya! (Forwards on the road of acceleration!)
Artist: Viktor Valer'evich Zhelobinskii (1936-?)
Verses: G. Tumarinson
5. Vzvesiv obstoyatel'stva dela, sud sklonyaetsya k opravdaniyu... (In weighing up the circumstances of the case, the court decides on an acquittal...)
Additional informaiton: The judge is weighing the evidence against a bundle of banknotes labelled 'Vzyatka' ('Backhander')
Artist: B. Tsygankov
Verses: A. Shklyarinskii
6. 'Kak vy okazalis' na meli?' 'Slishkom dolgo 'kratkimkursom' shli!' ('How did you finish up on the rocks?' 'We went too far on the 'short cut'!')
Artist: Viktor Anatol'evich Travin (1925-?)
Verses: E. Efinovskii
7. My nadryvaemsya, a oni den'gi lopatoi grebut... (We work our socks off, but they scoop up money by the spadeful...)
Artist: Zhozef Vyacheslavovich Efimovskii (1930-?)
Verses: A. Shklyarinskii
8. Po khozraschetu. - Ogon'! (Take aim on self-financing. - Fire!)
Artist: Vladislav Iogannesovich Kyunnap (1923-?)
Verses: V. Suslov
9. Khochesh' imet' ves - stupai v kooperativ! (If you want to put on weight, join a cooperative!)
Artist: Vasilii Vasil'evich Dubyago (1938-?)
Verses: V. Shumilin
10. Perestroika (Reconstruction)
Artist: Matvei Borisovich Mazrukho (1911-2000)
Verses: G. Tumarinson
11. Nashikh b'yut! (They've beaten us!)
Additional information: Four worried-looking men looking at a newspaper headline 'Rashidovskaya Mafiya'. The 'Rashidov Mafia' was a term used to describe the corrupt regime of Sharaf Rashidov, First Party Secretary of the Uzbek SSR from 1953 to 1983. Moscow carried out a purge of the Uzbek party in 1986.
Artist: Zhozef Vyacheslavovich Efimovskii (1930-?)
Verses: A. Shklyarinskii
12. Pomnite, kto zabyl: byl etot god, byl. 1937 (Remember, what is forgotten: it was that year, it was. 1937)
Artist: Georgii Vasil'evich Kovenchuk (1933-?)
Verses: V. Kapralovoi
13. Troika, semerka, tuz. (A three - a seven - and an ace!)
Artist: Viktor Anatol'evich Travin (1925-?)
Verses: E. Efimovskii
14. Perestroika! Kuda veter duet... (Reconstruction! Whichever way the wind blows...)
Artist: Viktor Valer'evich Zhelobinskii (1936-?)
Verses: V. Khochinskii
15. Vremya za stoya (Time to stand up)
Artist: Efim Ignat'evich Osipov (1930-?)
16. Ya vas v Afganistan ne posylal... (It wasn't me that sent you to Afghanistan...)
Artist: Viktor Anatol'evich Travin (1925-?)
Verses: E. Efimovskii
17. Nash vrag - byurokrati (Our enemy is the bureaucrats)
Artist: Efim Ignat'evich Osipov (1930-?)
Verses: A. Shklyarinskii
18. Vsya vlast' - sovetam! (All power - to the soviets!)
Artist: Fedor Fedorovich Nelyubin (1931-?)
Verses: V. Shumilin
19. Ne vziraya na litsa (uchimsya demokratii) (With complete objectivity (we study democracy))
Artist: Fedor Fedorovich Nelyubin (1931-?)
Verses: V. Suslov
20. Smenil plastinku. ''Glasnost', glasnost', glasnost'...' (He changed the record. 'Openness, openness, openness ...'
Artist: Vladimir Mikhailovich Men'shikov (1933-1994)
Verses: V. Khochinskii
21. Byurokrati (Bureaucrats)
Artist: Matvei Borisovich Mazrukho (1911-2000)
Verses: E. Efimovskii |