15 Incredible Soviet Era Magazine Covers

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The Soviet era was a time of huge upheaval, but was also a period that produced some of the most radical and memorable printed imagery of the 20th Century. The initial years after the Russian Revolution of 1917 offered artists and designers freedom to experiment; the development of Constructivist avant-garde aesthetics in the 1920s had a profound effect on magazine graphics and political propaganda.

When Stalin came to power creative freedom was reigned in, with an enforced emphasis on Social Realism, while the later stages of the Soviet Union saw a relative relaxation of censorship, allowing a more nuanced and sophisticated approach to image making. All of these trends would be mirrored in the incredible magazine covers of the Soviet era.

(thanks Andy)