Browse Items (11 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

Belomlinsky, M., "Let's make him a front-rank worker.", Rutgers, 1972

"Poet: Lezunov, B. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1972

They give everything to the hero
But ignore the working team:
Here they set records
Only…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Fighting Pencil, Heroes of Socialist Labor, Satire, Socialism, Soviet Union

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

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., 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

Cherepanov, Y. - First photo; Kunnap, V. - Second photo, Good luck!, Rutgers, Continuum, Free Press, 1965 - first photo; 1967 - second photo

"Poet: Shkliarinsky, A. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1967
Young chickens better quit the squeak,
stop calling for attention:
New boss, the Fox, has…

Tags: Art, Nomenklatura, Party, Satire, Soviet Union, 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

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

None, The Labyrinth, Rutgers & Harvard, None

"Written on the papers: “Order, Instruction, Decree, Explanation to Paragraph No. 141, Supplement to Instruction No. 638, Item 45 of Order No. 651…”
…

Tags: Art, Authoritarian, Bad Management, 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

White House Photographic Office, Tear down this wall!, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, June 12 1987

"Tear down this wall", also known as the Berlin Wall Speech, was a speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June…

Tags: Berlin Wall, Freedom, Reagan, Soviet Union, Speech