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Travin, V., Your application is being looked into, Rutgers, 1976

"Poet: Shkliarinsky, A. ""The Fighting Pencil” group, 1976

The promise is given only as a blind.
They will have to come back not once, not…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Corruption, Fighting Pencil, Waste

Travin, V., Bribe, Rutgers, 1969

"“The Fighting Pencil” group, 1969
—A bribe?!.. Never!..
—A present? Quite another matter…

The cartoon “unmasked” those officials that took…

Tags: Art, Bribery, Cartoons, Corruption, Fighting Pencil, Satire

The Straus Historical Society, Oscar S. Straus: Minister to Constantinople, The Straus Historical Society, Circa 1887

Oscar S. Straus (1850-1926) served as Minister to Constantinople from 1887-1889 at the pleasure of President Grover Cleveland. In 1898 President…

Tags: Constantinople, Oscar S. Straus, Ottoman Empire, Straus Family, Turkey

The Straus Historical Society, Roger Williams Straus (1891-1957), The Straus Historical Society, Circa 1950s

Roger Williams Straus (1891-1957) was involved in charitable endeavors like his parents, Oscar S. and Sarah Lavanburg Straus, and his in-laws, Daniel…

Tags: Anti-Racism, Antisemitism, Charity, Model Homes, Religion, Roger Williams Straus, Straus Family

Semenov, B. - First photo; Belomlinsky, M. - Second photo, Cantata in honor of inflated staff, Rutgers, 1959

"First photo: Poets: Tolmachev, D., and M. Romanov “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1959
They play their abaci like some virtuoso,
With pay raises,…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Expenses, Inflated Staff, Redundant Staff, Satire, The Fighting Pencil

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

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

Travin, V., Detailed Agenda, Rutgers & Continuum, 1971

"Poet: Kapralova, V. (The poem is omitted)
“The Fighting Pencil” group, 1971
Text on the scroll (from bottom up):
“To:
27. Further raise the…

Tags: Art, Brezhnev, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Satire, Soviet Union, Stagnation

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

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