Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union - Krokodils Political Cartoons Etty JohnPaperback / softback
Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union - Krokodils Political Cartoons Etty JohnPaperback / softback After the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to…
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Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union - Krokodils Political Cartoons Etty JohnPaperback / softback
After the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new economic growth. John Etty explores Soviet graphic satire through Krokodil and its political cartoons. In this new atmosphere of freedom, Russia's satirical magazine Krokodil (The Crocodile) became rejuvenated.
Etty's analysis of Krokodil extends and enhances our understanding of Soviet graphic satire beyond state-sponsored propaganda.For most of its life, Krokodil consisted of a sixteen-page satirical magazine He investigates the forms, production, consumption, and functions of Krokodil, focusing on the period from 1954 to 1964.Krokodil remained the longest-serving and most important satirical journal in the Soviet Union, unique in producing state-sanctioned graphic satirical comment on Soviet and international affairs for over seventy years.