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  • La figure de la Russie dans...
    Lobodenko, Kateryna

    La revue russe, 2014, Letnik: 42, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    The image of Russia in Russian Satirical Drawings in France. Mikhail Drizo (pseudonym MAD), who emigrated to Paris in 1920, was one of the first Russian caricaturists to evoke in exile the image of Russia. In his satirical sketches, as in the works of his numerous colleagues such as M. Linsky, F. Rozhankovsky, A. Alexandrov and many others, whose satirical drawings were published in numerous Russian-language periodicals in France, there are always two Russias. First, there is the Russia that existed before the Revolution, the country known as “ Holy Russia”. Then there is the other Russia, the “ Soviet” one that emerged after the Revolution. In our article we analyse the ways in which the Russian caricaturists in exile depicted the country they had lost, how they illustrated that country’s past and present, and portrayed its politics and its values. Discussing images frequently used by exiled Russian caricaturists to describe their country, such as the bear, the woman, or the death and destruction spread by the Soviets, we will attempt to answer the following questions : what were the aims of the Bolsheviks and those who emigrated ? Who served the people ? And who used them ?