"RED" BEAR FROM THE BOLSHEVIKS' COUNTRY: AN ESSAY Cover Image

«КРАСНЫЙ МЕДВЕДЬ» ИЗ СТРАНЫ БОЛЬШЕВИКОВ (ЭССЕ)
"RED" BEAR FROM THE BOLSHEVIKS' COUNTRY: AN ESSAY

Author(s): Mikhail Yur'yevich Timofeev
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology of Culture, Post-Communist Transformation, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Издатель Наталья Докучаева
Keywords: the «Soviet bear»; the «Red bear»; popular culture; sots art; visual representations;

Summary/Abstract: The essay deals with comparison of visual images of the bear in the Western and Soviet cultures. Meanwhile the Western caricatures and comics represented the bear as a terrible and fierce beast, the Soviet culture produced the images of peaceful and friendly bears (or more often of bear cubs). In the post-Cold war period the Soviet «Red bear» turns into a character of the pop-culture both in Russia and abroad.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 101-106
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Russian