Boris Yefimov

The view from inside the state. Yefimov, also spelled Efimov, drew for Pravda and was known as Stalin's favorite cartoonist, which makes him a very different case from the dissidents elsewhere on this list. His withering portrayals of Hitler and the Nazi leadership shaped how Soviet readers saw the war, and after it he went to the Nuremberg trials to caricature the defendants. Afterwards the same pen turned on the West. He died in Moscow in 2008, reportedly aged 108, so his career spans almost the whole Soviet story. Read him for the craft and for what official satire looks like.