Browse Items (44 total)

Kunnap, V., Save more!, Rutgers, 1972

"Poet: Alekseyev, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1972
They met the savings quotas by hook and crook, and curves,
But for the celebration they ate…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Lavish, Posters, Satire, Waste

Semenov, B., Plant director!, Rutgers, 1974

"Poet: Shumilin, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1974
He took a nap, showed no reaction
To the pollution by his plant
And only then he sprang to…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Director, Plant, Pollution, Satire, The Fighting Pencil

Zavyalov, V., Planning with his head in the clouds, Rutgers, 1962

The poster targets the lack of realism and excessively high production goals of the plans sent down to enterprises from central agencies.

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Planning, Realism, Satire, Unrealistic

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

Belomlinsky, M., Our department is ahead again!, Rutgers, 1981

"Poet: Yefimovsky, Y. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1981

This road has just been completed,
But it won’t stay smooth for long.
For as the…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Irony, Roads, 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

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

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

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

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