Browse Items (57 total)

Trunev, Y., Smokagogue, Rutgers, 1973

"Smokagogue is an acronym of two words: smoke and demagogue.

Poet: Suslov, V.

To clean the air?—He says that we must.
“I’ll put the filters…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Pollution, Posters, Satire, Smokagogue

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

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

Travin, V., Orders, Rutgers, Continuum, 1981

"Poet: Yefimovski, Y.

He gave orders, many a task,
“Work harder!”—he was bellowing.
But he never left his desk
To check if team was…

Tags: Art, Authoritarian, Authoritarianism, Autocracy, Cartoons, Satire, Soviet Union

Travin, V., Everything's according to plan, Rutgers, None

"Poet: Yefimovsky, Y. “The Fighting Pencil” group
The boss was curt and unrefined.
—Finish the bridge by the deadline.
—The crane is down? Not…

Tags: Art, Bridge, Cartoons, Irony, Satire, The Fighting Pencil

Travin, V., Pigsty, Rutgers, None

"Poet: Yefimovsky, Y. “The Fighting Pencil” group
—Move the cattle operation,
Build a hog pen in this site!
New boss, new consideration.
—He is…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Change, Decision-Making, Satire, The Fighting Pencil

Travin, V., Why are you luring my people away from me, Rutgers, 1973

"Poet: Shkliarinsky, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1973

The people choose to work in those places
That have well-organized and clean…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Fighting Pencil, Labor Safety, Safety, Satire, 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

Sychev, I., ...But the booze was in the mouth..., Rutgers, 1984

The vain crow, a forest ranger, has been outwitted by the fox. This time he gives the crow a bottle of vodka and makes off with the trees that she is…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Corruption, Crow, Environment, Satire, Vodka