Browse Items (50 total)
- Collection: Russian Cartoons & Posters: From Red Tape to Red Square (G-1)
Rozantsev, V., SOS
Rozantsev, V., SOS, Rutgers, 1970s
This cartoon is the brilliant takes on how emergency situations are handled by bureaucratic organizations. Here, the only responses of the bureaucrat…
Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Emergency, Satire, SOS, Trained Incapacity
Kunnap, V., The "gted" manager
Kunnap, V., The "gted" manager, Rutgers, 1968
"Poet: Alekseyev, V. ""The Fighting Pencil” group, 1968
Sycophants and bootlickers
Are untiring as such,
And sometimes
Being praised by them too…
Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Satire, The Fighting Pencil
Rabinovich, Y., The "most promising" employee
Rabinovich, Y., The "most promising" employee, Rutgers, 1964
"Poet: Tumarinson, G.
This boss is generous with promises—
He may make hundreds of promises...
But all his claims are simple proofs
Of his…
Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Empty Promises, Posters, Satire
Kunnap, V., The case of pipe supply being a pipe dream
Kunnap, V., The case of pipe supply being a pipe dream, Rutgers, 1975
"Poet: Smirnovsky, S. The Fighting pencil” group, 1979
Memos, notices alone
Never get things done but stall.
And the pipeline, as we…
Tags: Art, Cartoons, Inefficiency, Pipeline, Satire, The Fighting Pencil
Rabinovich, Y. - First photo; Tsvetkov, A. - Second photo, The Guide!
Rabinovich, Y. - First photo; Tsvetkov, A. - Second photo, The Guide!, Rutgers, Chatham House, & Harcourt Brace, 1969 - first photo; 1965 - second photo
First photo: In this cartoon we see a Mertonian bureaucratic personality emerge as a result of overemphasizing the importance of rules in sustaining…
Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Organizations, Rules, Satire, The Fighting Pencil
Kunnap, V., The house with ghosts
Kunnap, V., The house with ghosts, Rutgers, 1972
"Poet: Shumilin, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1972
He is just a genius for a shady business deal:
Fake names on the payroll he shows as…
Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Dead Souls, Fighting Pencil, Posters, Satire
None, The Labyrinth
None, The Labyrinth, Rutgers & Harvard, None
"Written on the papers: “Order, Instruction, Decree, Explanation to Paragraph No. 141, Supplement to Instruction No. 638, Item 45 of Order No. 651…”
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Tags: Art, Authoritarian, Bad Management, Cartoons, Satire, Soviet Union
Kunnap, V., The Paper "STREAM"
Kunnap, V., The Paper "STREAM", Rutgers, 1960
"Poet: Suslov, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1960
Look! This is the method of a conveyer belt,
But it seems to resemble more of a red…
Tags: Art, Cartoons, Economy, Khrushchev, Ministerial, Satire, Sovnarkhoz, The Fighting Pencil