Vitalii Goriaev exhibition

Details of the Vitalii Goriaev (sometime Krokodil artist) at the New Manege in Moscow at the moment.

С Новым Годом!

The annual New Year's Krokodil cover from 1951.

Krokodil 1951: 36 p.1

Крокодил articles on eBay

Extracts from Krokodil magazine, translated into German, on sale in eBay at the moment.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140574954175

Images of Peace and Nuclear War

Very interesting article on Soviet attitudes to, and representations of, the USA during the Cold War. This is a central theme in Krokodil during the period 1945-1990, and it was the stimulus for most of the academic and/or popular studies of the magazine, but it's a subject which now seems to be getting the revisions it deserves.

http://russianhistoryblog.org/2011/02/images-of-peace-and-nuclear-war/