in the Third Reich
Y. Ganf
1939
K. Rotov
1939
B. Fridkin
1939
K. Rotov
1939
B. Prorokov
1939
L. Gench
1939
L. Gench
1939
N. Radlov
1939
Crocodile
Crocodile was a satirical weekly paper first published in August 1922, in the time of the early NEP. It printed drawings, prose and poetry, and was inexpensive and widely circulated.
Images from The Crocodile Album of Soviet Humour, ed. by Ivor Montague and Herbert Marshall, Pilot Press, 1943.
Bolshevik cartoons--from the Crocodile and the Projector, reprinted in New Masses, April 1934
(accompanying text:) Self Criticism in Soviet Cartoons
(first sentences illegible)..If the first Five-Year Plan turned out a splendid success, if collectivization has won glorious victories, if industrial production is growing at an unprecedented rate, the ruthless and at times almost savage way in which the Bolsheviks criticize themselves had a great deal to do with it. To take a nation of backward individualist peasants, and mould them within a short time into efficient, cultured, and responsible industrial workers and collective farmers is a collossal task. In this the Soviet writers and artists have played a magnificent part. Cartoons are proving a most powerful weapon in satirizing foibles and criticizing failures. Small wonder there has been an efflorescence of the art of cartooning in the Soviet Union. The six cartoons on these pages have been culled out from recent Societ publications--the Crocodile and the Projector. (note: one cartoon ommitted, distorted on the center crease.)
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| Tulla Technique | Thief: My Key Opens Them All! | How To Obtain Fire By Means of Matches |
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| A Slap at Snobbery | Criticism of Bureaucracy |
See also cartoons from the Crocodile in the Children's Literature: Images pages