Browse Items (12 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

Fiodorov, Y, Try to hit the target!, Rutgers, 1965

Cover of Krokodil [Crocodile] satirical magazine, No. 17, 1965

Inscriptions on the papers: “Complaint,” “Application,”
“Request,” and “Appeal.”
…

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

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

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

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

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

Kunnap, V., The schedule of repairs, Rutgers, 1961

"“The reconstruction and renovation of residential housing is progressing well in the majority of Leningrad districts. However, in some city areas…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Construction, Housing, Leningrad, Repairs, Satire

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

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

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