7. Disintegration Of The Soviet Union As Seen In Japanese Political Cartoons

2008 ◽  
pp. 134-152
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Cartoons ◽  
The Soviet Union

scholarly journals The Law of the Wolf: How the Kukryniksy Trio Represented the Enemy as a “Wild” Animal in Cold War Political Cartoons in Pravda, 1965–1982

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reeta Kangas
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Wild Animal ◽  
Political Cartoons ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World

This article examines how the Soviet Kukryniksy trio used wild animals in their political cartoons to depict the enemies of the Soviet Union. The primary material of this research consists of Kukryniksy’s 39 wild animal cartoons published in Pravda during 1965–1982. For my theoretical and methodological framework, I rely on frame analysis and propaganda theory. My aim is to demonstrate what kind of symbolic functions wild animals have in these cartoons and what kind of characteristics they attach to the enemies depicted. Furthermore, I aim to examine in what kind of frames the world was to be seen according to the Soviet propaganda machine, and how these frames were created with the use of wild animal characters. In these cartoons wild animals are used to reveal the “true” nature of the enemy. The animal’s symbolic functions may derive from the linguistic or other cultural contexts. The cartoons depict the enemy mainly as deceptive and ruthless, but simultaneously predictable to the Soviet Union. They also represent the enemy in a belittling light in order to retain the frame of the superiority of the Soviet Union over its enemies.

Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-126
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Tikhonyuk ◽  
Mark McKinney
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Cartoons ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Graphic Satire

John Etty, Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2019). 276 pp. ISBN: 978-1496821089 ($30)Livio Belloï and Fabrice Leroy, Pierre La Police: Une esthétique de la malfaçon (Paris: Serious Publishing, 2019). 200 pp. ISBN: 9782363200266 (30€)

Review of Social Thought in the Soviet Union.

1969 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 516-516
Author(s):  
Morton Deutsch
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
The Soviet Union
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