Browse Items (44 total)

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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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

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

Trunev, Y., Write…That we breed sturgeons, Rutgers, 1967

"Poet: Smirnovsky, S.

A bureaucrat can always manage in such a way.
And sturgeon is not the problem here...
This man can breed everything and…

Tags: Art, Breaucracy, Cartoons, Corruption, Pollution, Satire

Tsvetkov, A., Now nobody can blame me that I treat visitors inconsiderately, Rutgers, 1956

Krokodil [Crocodile] satirical magazine, 1956
Signs: “Sit down please;” “How do you do;” “Please smoke;”
“Good bye;” “All the best to the…

Tags: Art, Bad Management, Cartoons, Crocodile, Magazine, Satire

Uborevich-Borovsky, V., We've got pluralism!, Rutgers, 1991

As Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to restructure the nation, the problems of unclear jurisdiction appeared in such areas as urban traffic control.

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Jurisdiction, Satire, Urban, Urban Traffic