Russian Satirical Journals: Caricatures of 1905-1906 in the Context of Mass Politics

Student: Osminin Viktor

Supervisor: Alexander Semyonov

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Applied and Interdisciplinary History "Usable Pasts" (Master)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2018

Author analyzes the Russian satirical journals of the late 1905 and early 1906 with the use of the theoretical constructions of J. Habermas and M. Bakhtin. In the intertextual analysis of the content, the author concludes that the use of the image of Death and the motives of Cruelty as universal explanatory categories to explain the political process in Russia. The decline in the popularity of satirical magazines was not due to the pressure of censorship but to the loss of interest among content among the mass audience. Like the omnibus of the press, satirical magazines led to a structural transformation of the public sphere (the use of the category "liberal bourgeois public sphere" is irrelevant in the conditions of the Russian Empire).

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