Under the Shadow of the Statue of Liberty: Stories by American Writers. Illustrations by Veniamin Briskin.

Leacock, Stephen; Connell, Richard; Mamet, Louis, etc. [Under the Shadow of the Statue of Liberty: Stories by American Writers]. Pod Sen’u Statui Svobody: Rasskazy amerikanskikh pisatelei.

Series Biblioteka Zhurnala 'Sovetskii voin', № 6 (169).
Translation from English by B. Privalov and I. Savitskii.
Illustrations by V. Briskin.

Moskva, Voenizdat, 1951.
16mo, 64 pp., ill.

In original wrappers. Issued without title.
Near very good condition.

Cold War propaganda book. 

This collection features humorous stories written before World War II, including 'A Hero in Homespun: or, The Life Struggle of Hezekiah Hayloft' by Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock (1869-1944), 'A Half Dollar Story' by American writer Richard Connell (1893-1949), and 'The Pension' by Louis Mamet (included in 'The Best Short Stories of 1934: and the yearbook of the American short story').
Veniamin Briskin (1906-1982) was a Russian artist known for propaganda posters and cartoons. He was the author of Hitler’s caricatures, one of the first to appear in the Soviet press. Throughout his life, he created cartoons for the military, during the Civil War, the Russo-Finnish War, and World War II. After World War II, he continued to produce propaganda posters and cartoons for Voenizdat (the Russian Military Publishing House) of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
This series of books from the magazine 'Sovetskii voin' comprises Russian translations of stories by American authors, published by Voenizdat (the Russian Military Publishing House) during the Cold War. These collections include stories not only by leftist or communist writers but also by politically neutral authors. In this case, each story was accompanied by a special preface aimed at providing the correct interpretation of the texts. The series began publishing in the 1940s and continued until the dissolution of the USSR.

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