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Author Etty, John, 1979- author.

Title Graphic satire in the Soviet Union : Krokodil's political cartoons / John Etty
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 266 pages)
Contents Explaining Krokodil Magazine and the Soviet media system -- Krokodil's format and visual language -- A "school for laughter?": carnivalesque humor and menippean satire in Krokodil -- The co-creation of Krokodil Magazine -- Participatory reading: the forms and consumption of Soviet satire -- Making the risible visible: the performative construction of non-Soviet ideology in Krokodil -- Krokodil's hollow center: the performance of affirmation -- Becoming Soviet in Krokodil
Summary "After the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new economic growth. In this new atmosphere of freedom, Russia's satirical magazine Krokodil (The Crocodile) became rejuvenated. John Etty explores Soviet graphic satire through Krokodil and its political cartoons. 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. 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 comprising a range of cartoons, photographs, and verbal texts. Authored by professional and nonprofessional contributors and published by Pravda in Moscow, it produced state-sanctioned satirical comment on Soviet and international affairs from 1922 onward. Soviet citizens and scholars of the USSR recognized Krokodil as the most significant, influential source of Soviet graphic satire. Indeed, the magazine enjoyed an international reputation, and many Americans and Western Europeans, regardless of political affiliation, found the images pointed and witty. Astoundingly, the magazine outlived the USSR but until now has received little scholarly attention."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2019)
SUBJECT Krokodil. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015049914
Krokodil. fast (OCoLC)fst01363615
Subject Political satire, Russian -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Russian wit and humor, Pictorial.
ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
ART -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Politics and government.
Political satire, Russian.
Politics and government -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Russian wit and humor, Pictorial.
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- Caricatures and cartoons
Subject Soviet Union.
Genre/Form political cartoons.
Political cartoons.
Caricatures and cartoons.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Political cartoons.
Caricatures politiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018029399
ISBN 9781496820549
1496820541
1496820568
9781496820563
9781496820556
149682055X