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Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union
John Etty
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University Press of Mississippi 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
After the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new economic growth. In this new atmosphere of freedom, Russia’s satirical magazine
Krokodil (
The Crocodile) became rejuvenated. John Etty explores Soviet graphic satire through
Krokodil and its political cartoons. He investigates the forms, production, consumption, and functions of
Krokodil, focusing on the period from 1954 to 1964.
Krokodil remained the longest-serving and most important satirical journal in the Soviet Union, unique in producing state-sanctioned graphic satirical comment on Soviet and international affairs for over seventy years. Etty’s analysis of
Krokodil extends and enhances our understanding of Soviet graphic satire beyond state-sponsored propaganda.
For most of its life,
Krokodil consisted of a sixteen-page satirical magazine comprising a range of cartoons, photographs, and verbal texts. Authored by professional and nonprofessional contributors and published by
Pravda in Moscow, it produced state-sanctioned satirical comment on Soviet and international affairs from 1922 onward. Soviet citizens and scholars of the USSR recognized
Krokodil as the most significant, influential source of Soviet graphic satire. Indeed, the magazine enjoyed an international reputation, and many Americans and Western Europeans, regardless of political affiliation, found the images pointed and witty. Astoundingly, the magazine outlived the USSR but until now has received little scholarly attention.
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Slavic Studies, Ivan Semenov, satire, socialist realism, USSR, political cartoons, capitalism, totalitarianism, Popular Culture, carnivalesques humor, Russia, propaganda, cartoons, menippean satire, censorship, Comics Studies, socialism, Joseph Stalin, Pravda