Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union Clarence Lang his time in Union prisons

his time in Union prisons as a POW

reverent inquiry into all the ways our dead remain with us

this indispensable

are published for the first time

irreverent and brain-stretching

Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union Clarence Lang his time in Union prisonsAfter 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