Russian Satirical Journals at U Wisconsin-Madison

Dear Readers,


I wanted to bring to your attention an interesting digitization project that has been completed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The project is titled, "Russian Satirical Journals".


This project's self-description is as follows, "This digital collection represents a subset of the paper holdings of early 20th-century Russian political and satirical journals held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in the Department of Special Collections. These journals are, for the most part, representative of political and satirical journals published during the small window of relative press freedom which existed in Russia from the Imperial Decree (Ukaz) on the press issued on November 24th (Old Style), 1905 until new stricter press regulations were issued on March 18th (Old Style), 1906. A few of the items such as Krasnobai and Kolo-kol'chik are difficult to date precisely, and a few items such as Nakanune, Obryv and Proselok represent publications which come from the period following the new March 18th, 1906 regulations."



There are 23 different Russian satirical journal titles that can be found online at http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/EastEurope/EastEurope-idx?type=browse&scope=EASTEUROPE.RUSSATJOU