Browse Items (14 total)

Open Government Partnership

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is an international initiative that secures commitments from national and sub-national governments to promote…

Tags: Corruption, Government, International

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

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

Kunnap, V., For high progress in education!, Rutgers, 1975

"Poet: Smirnovski, S.

Little Yegorka just ran through the text,
He did not learn his lesson—so ""D"" was the next.
The director of studies did…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Education, Grades, Satire, Schools

Rabinovich, Y., The "most promising" employee, Rutgers, 1964

"Poet: Tumarinson, G.

This boss is generous with promises—
He may make hundreds of promises...
But all his claims are simple proofs
Of his…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Empty Promises, Posters, Satire

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

Cherepanov, Y., I need those who fit this measure…, Rutgers, 1965

"The real interest of the party-state-managerial nomenklatura was “in maintaining at any cost their privileged position in society because it allowed…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Loyalty, Nomenklatura, Obedience, Satire, Soviet Union

Kunnap, V., The "gted" manager, Rutgers, 1968

"Poet: Alekseyev, V. ""The Fighting Pencil” group, 1968
Sycophants and bootlickers
Are untiring as such,
And sometimes
Being praised by them too…

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