Novyi Satirikon

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Novyi Satirikon
Satirikon-01-1910.jpg
Cover page dated January 1910
CategoriesSatirical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Year founded1908
Final issueAugust 1918
CountryRussian Empire
Soviet Union
Based inSaint Petersburg
LanguageRussian

Novyi Satirikon was a Russian language weekly humor and satirical magazine that was published in Saint Petersburg in the period 1908–1918. The magazine held an anti-Bolshevik political stance, and most of its contributors had to flee Russia following the revolution in October 1917.

History and profile[]

The magazine was started with the title Satirikon in 1908.[1] It was published on a weekly basis.[2] Due to financial problems between the publisher and the editors some editors left the magazine and started a new magazine in 1913 which was named Novyi Satirikon.[3][2] Other editors continued Satirikon until spring 1914 when it folded.[3]

Novyi Satirikon targeted the liberal democratic intelligentsia and was read by high school and university students, deputies in the State Duma, ministers and senators in the State Council.[3] During World War I Novyi Satirikon of which editor-in-chief was Arkady Averchenko published nationalist and patriotic materials[3] and adopted an anti-German political stance.[4]

From 1913 Vladimir Lebedev began to work as a caricaturist for the magazine.[2] Nicholas Remisoff, Nadezhda Teffi and Sasha Chorny were among the major contributors of the magazine.[1][5] At the beginning of the Communist revolution in 1917 the magazine advocated a radical anti-Bolshevik approach which became much more intense following the Bolshevik rule.[6] The satire adopted by Novyi Satirikon was extensively ironic and sarcastic during that period.[6]

Novyi Satirikon survived the press decree issued by the Communist government led by Vladimir Lenin and was published until August 1918 (issue 24) when it was censored and then, shut down by the government because of its anti-Bolshevik views.[3][6]

Legacy[]

Exiled contributors of the magazine published satirical magazines, also named Novyi Satirikon, in Paris in 1931 and in Frankfurt-am-Main in 1951.[3] Another magazine with the same name was also launched in Moscow in 1997.[3] All these publications existed for a short period.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Oleg Minin (2014). "Russian Artists in the United States. The Case of Nicholas Remisoff (1887-1975)". Experiment. 20 (1): 230–232. doi:10.1163/2211730X-12341264.
  2. ^ a b c Nicoletta Misler (Summer 1987). "A Public Art: Caricatures and Posters of Vladimir Lebedev". The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts. 5: 62. doi:10.2307/1503936.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Lesley Milne (October 2006). "Novyi Satirikon, I9I4-I9I8: The Patriotic Laughter of the Russian Liberal Intelligentsia during the First World War and the Revolution". The Slavonic and East European Review. 84 (4). JSTOR 4214359.
  4. ^ A.B. Astashov (2018). "Violation of the Laws and Customs of War on the Russian Front in the First World War". Russian Studies in History. 57 (1): 22. doi:10.1080/10611983.2018.1577095.
  5. ^ Edythe C. Haber (2007). "The Roots of NEP Satire: The Case of Teffi and Zoshchenko". The NEP Era: Soviet Russia 1921-1928. 1.
  6. ^ a b c Annie Gérin (2018). Devastation and Laughter. Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State, 1920s–1930s. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press. p. 45. doi:10.3138/9781487515324-007. ISBN 978-1-4875-0243-0.

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