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Resurrection is a sweeping discussion of the metamorphosis of contemporary Russian comic art from its rebirth to its entry into mainstream culture. Read more on the publisher's website.
7 wrz 2024 · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, ENGLISH, COMIC BOOK, PROGRESS PUBLISHERS, MOSCOW, 1985, TRANSLATED: JANE SAYER.
An exhaustive study of post–Soviet Russian comics since 1991, from the rebirth of the art form to its entry into mainstream culture.
Before 1917—even when graphic satire blossomed in the revolutionary year of 1905—a Russian tsar was almost never depicted in a Russian cartoon. While various cartoons pictured government ministers unflatteringly, Tsar Nicholas II was almost always the absent player.
This chapter examines the history of Russian comics or komiks under the Soviet regime, breaking it down into three main phases: the Revolutionary Era (1917–1934), Socialist Realism (1934 to mid-1980s), and the rise of the Non-Conformists (1960s–1980s).
The beautiful “ROSTA windows” in this exhibition represent the news-plus-propaganda impulse of the Communist Party in the early days of the Russian Revolution (image 1).
It looks at Gorbachev’s policies of a new engagement with the West, economic reform, and loosening of censorship and their impact on publishing in general and comics in particular. More specifically, it explores how Perestroika and Glasnost led to the emergence of a comics industry in Russia.
