Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States

by Alexis Lerner

For more than a decade, Alexis Lerner combed the alleyways, underpasses, and public squares of cities once under communist rule, from Berlin in the west to Vladivostok in the east, recording thousands of cases of critical and satirical political street art and cataloging these artworks linguistically and thematically across space and time. Complemented by first-hand interviews with leading artists, activists, and politicians from across the region,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487525427
• ISBN13: 9781487525422
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages