Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union
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Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union

Krokodil's Political Cartoons

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eBook - ePub

Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union

Krokodil's Political Cartoons

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781496820525
eBook ISBN
9781496820532
Topic
History
Subtopic
Russian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter One: Explaining Krokodil Magazine and the Soviet Media System
  8. Chapter Two: Krokodil’s Format and Visual Language
  9. Chapter Three: A “School for Laughter”: Carnivalesque Humor and Menippean Satire in Krokodil
  10. Chapter Four: The Co-creation of Krokodil Magazine
  11. Chapter Five: Participatory Reading: The Forms and Consumption of Soviet Satire
  12. Chapter Six: Making the Risible Visible: The Performative Construction of Non-Soviet Ideology in Krokodil
  13. Chapter Seven: Krokodil’s Hollow Center: The Performance of Affirmation
  14. Chapter Eight: Becoming Soviet in Krokodil
  15. Conclusions
  16. Notes
  17. Works Cited
  18. Index