Krokodil
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Boris Yefimov...directed mainly against the "capitalist west", gained him prominence, and his work started appearing in such titles as Izvestia, Krokodil and Ogonyok, a magazine founded by his brother Mikhail Koltsov (1898-1940). The year 1924 saw the... In this article: Leon Trotsky, Mikhail Koltsov, Izvestia, Pravda, Moscow, Boris Yefimov, Kiev, Defendant, and First World War |
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Yevgeniy Migunov
...policy (he tried to implement several innovations). Later he worked at "Diafilm", a children's book publisher, at the satiric magazine Krokodil, and Vesyolye kartinki magazine. Among his major achievements are illustrations to Aleksandr...
In this article: Kir Bulychev, Tale of the Troika, Monday Begins on Saturday, and Soyuzmultfilm
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Vitali Vitaliev
...French and English , working as an interpreter and translator before becoming a journalist in 1981. He worked as a special correspondent for Krokodil magazine in Moscow when he appeared as Clive James' 'Moscow Correspondent' on Saturday Night...
In this article: Vitali Vitaliev, Australia, UK, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Channel 4, London, QI, and Moscow
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The St. Petersburg Times | November 02, 2009
Time to Take the Devil Out of NATO
...teeth with intermediate-range missiles aimed at the Soviet Union. There is a rich Soviet history of crude anti-NATO propaganda. Old copies of Krokodil magazine, for example, contain plenty of grotesque caricatures filled with the bloody...
In this article: NATO, Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, United States, Barack Obama, Mikhail Margelov, and George W. Bush
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Stalin's antisemitism
...and Itzik Fefer. On January 13, 1953, TASS announced "the unmasking of a terrorist group of doctors-poisoners." Satirical magazine Krokodil published antisemitic feuilletons and caricatures, Pravda published materials on arrested "spies"',...
In this article: Joseph Stalin, Pravda, Edvard Radzinsky, Leon Trotsky, Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Soviet Union, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, and United States
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Russian humour
.... Though independent political satire could be extremely dangerous during most of the Soviet period, the official satirical magazine Krokodil was given considerable license to satirise political events and figures of the day. In...
In this article: Russia, Yakov Smirnoff, and Soviet Union
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Krokodil
Krokodil (, "crocodile") was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1922. At that time, a large number of satirical magazines existed, such as Zanoza and Prozhektor. Nearly all of them eventually disappeared.
In this article: Kukriniksy, Yuliy Ganf, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet Union, Moscow, and Russia
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Mikhail Koltsov
...where he criticised bureaucracy and other negative phenomena in the Soviet Union. Koltsov founded popular journals such as Krokodil, Chudak and Ogonyok and was a member of the editorial board of Pravda. As a correspondent of Pravda,...
In this article: Pravda, Spanish Civil War, Bolshevik party, Ogonyok, Boris Efimov, and Spain
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Yuliy Ganf
...Ganf () (1898-1973) - Soviet Russian graphic artist, People's Artist of the USSR, especially known for his satirical cartoons in the Krokodil magazine. Yuliy Ganf was born on June 8, 1898 in the city of Poltava. He studied in the...
In this article: Yuliy Ganf, People's Artist of the USSR, Moscow, Ministry of Education, Pravda, and CIS
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Sergey Zvantsev
...the feature story Taganrog's Delegate on the famous steelworker Nikolai Dygai. Zvantsev's feuilletons were published in satirical magazine Krokodil, in Literaturnaya Gazeta and many more. His miniatures were included in the satirical tv...
In this article: Taganrog, Kharkiv University, and Anton Chekhov
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The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - Boris Yefimov (1900-2008)
...that he start drawing. From 1922, Yefimov regularly published his cartoons in Pravda and Izvestia newspapers and in the satirical magazine Krokodil. Curiously, Yefimov's latest job was with Izvestia: On his 107th birthday, he was...
In this article: Boris Yefimov, Josef Stalin, Mikhail Koltsov, Dmitry Medvedev, Izvestia, Dwight Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler, The St. Petersburg Times, Moscow, and Anton Denikin
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Krokodil (Russian: "Крокодил", "crocodile") was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1922. At that time, a large number of satirical magazines existed, such as Zanoza and Prozhektor. Nearly all of them eventually disappeared.
Although political satire was dangerous during much of the Soviet period, Krokodil was given considerable license to lampoon political figures and events. Typical and safe topics for lampooning in the Soviet era were the lack of initiative and imagination promoted by the style of an average Soviet middle-bureaucrat, and the problems produced by drinking on the job by Soviet workers. Krokodil also ridiculed capitalist countries and attacked various political, ethnic and religious groups that allegedly opposed the Soviet system. For example, at the time of the Doctors' plot it published a number of anti-semitic articles and cartoons.
Many notable persons contributed to the magazine, including Vladimir Mayakovsky, Kukriniksy, and Yuliy Ganf.
Similar magazines existed in individual Soviet republics, e.g., Perets' (Перець, "pepper") in the Ukrainian SSR, Vozhyk (Вожык, "hedgehog") in the Byelorussian SSR, Mushtum (Муштум, "fist") in the Uzbek SSR, Šluota ("broom") in the Lithuanian SSR, and Chalkan (Чалкан, "nettle") in the Kyrgyz SSR; and in other states of the Soviet bloc, e.g. Urzică ("The Nettle") in Romania.
Among the vocal compositions of Dmitri Shostakovich, who is known for his satirical character, there are 5 Romances on texts from Krokodil Magazine (1965), which is a satire of Soviet satire.
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