Chicago-based historian Ross Wolfe has recently reproduced a collection of scans from a fascinating alphabet book from the Soviet Union circa 1931—in it, each letter of the Cyrillic alphabet is formed by erotic copulating bodies.
The work of artist Sergei Merkurov, who went on to become the People’s Artist of the USSR, the book is designed to encourage adult literacy and reflects the surprisingly liberal attitudes of the pre-Stalinist Soviet regime.
Using erotic drawings of figures—including non-human characters like satyrs and cupids—indulging in various sexual acts, this may be described as “typographic Karma Sutra”.
We definitely did not think that this could have came out of a communist state—view the rest of this sexually explicit alphabet book below.
[via Boing Boing]