The publicistic aspect of the struggle against right-wing bias in party politics in the satirical magazine “Crocodile” (1929)

Abstract

This article studies the interaction between Party power and the journal Crocodile in the struggle against right-wing bias in the Party. The interaction itself shows that Stalin’s ideological machine was struggling not only with the right-wing bias in the Party, but also in a broader sense – with all dissenters in Soviet society, with all those who did not share the transition from the new economic policy to military-communist methods of agricultural management, with those who were against the unleashing of a new civil war. The sketches of Crocodile magazine, which came out in huge circulations, provide a representative picture of the mental turn from the tolerance of the New Economic Policy Era to the intolerance of the new class struggle for the construction of socialism.