Browse Items (50 total)

Kunnap, V., Has been kicked like a soccer ball, Rutgers, 1974

Poet: Smirnovski, S. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1974

A client with a request came to the deputy head,
He was kicked in a moment somewhere to…

Tags: Bureaucracy, Fighting Pencil, Satire, Soviet Union, Warehouse

Ganf, Y, Horror of the bureaucrat, Rutgers, 1936

Cover of Krokodil [Crocodile] satirical magazine, No. 18, 1936

—It is terrible to think that every one of them
is not just a visitor but also a…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Crocodile, Magazine, Satire

Valk, G., How everything started, Rutgers, 1968

"The theme of the poster is the approachability and accessibility of bureaucratic leaders. It tackles this subject with a great sense of humor. God,…

Tags: Art, Atheism, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Posters, Religion, Satire

Cherepanov, Y., I need those who fit this measure…, Rutgers, 1965

"The real interest of the party-state-managerial nomenklatura was “in maintaining at any cost their privileged position in society because it allowed…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Loyalty, Nomenklatura, Obedience, Satire, Soviet Union

Vasiliev, I remember pretty well: I introduced some innovative somewhere here…, Rutgers, 1951

For the Soviet Union, the roots of technological stagnation were in the monopoly of the state on the means of production that obliterated the…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Innovation, Satire, Stagnation, Technology

Zavyalov, V., I've made a note of your criticism, Rutgers, 1973

"Poet: Lezunov, B. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1973

He is a wily politician
For no one has to ask permission
To give him negative…

Tags: Art, Authoritarianism, Cartoon, Criticism, Fighting Pencil, Satire

Zavyalov, V., Inflated authority, Rutgers, 1975

"Poet: Shkliarinsky, A. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1975
Written on the balloon, arrows and seal, respectively:
“Authority,” “Criticism,” and “To…

Tags: Art, Authority, Cartoons, Criticism, Fighting Pencil, Satire

Oboznenko, D., It fits!, Rutgers, Continuum, None

As Chubarov (2001) put it, in a rapidly changing world, it was the “revolution of the microchip and the computer” taking place in the West that…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Computers, Microchip, Satire, Science, Soviet Union

Travin, V., Look at the big picture, Rutgers, 1969

Poet: Smirnovski, S. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1969

The picture reads: “Our building after the renovation.”
Superintendent has a heart of…

Tags: Art, Fighting Pencil, Irony, Renovation, Satire

Kunnap, V., Nothing you can do, Rutgers, 1968

"Poet: Tumarinson, G. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1968
“Accurate and impartial consideration of complaints from the working popula6on should be an…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Grievances, Protest, Satire, Soviet Union, The Fighting Pencil