Krokodil No. 20 (130), May 1925: How Much Land Does a Former Man Need? (cover, Malyutin)

Magazine cover: a beaming, heavy-set man in a peaked cap and long coat carries a potted flower and trundles a wheelbarrow of belongings from a columned manor house, past two watching peasants. The title labels him a 'former man' and the caption gives him a complaint of a landowner evicted from his estate. The 'former' label on a comic figure is the name-calling tell.

Date

May 1925

Period

Interwar

Made by

Krokodil (Крокодил), illustrated satirical weekly published in Moscow by the Pravda publishing house; cover by Ivan Malyutin

Region

Eastern Europe and Eurasia

Country

Soviet Union

Medium

Print

Issuer type

Media

Regime

Soviet Union

Leader

Alexei Rykov

Audience

Domestic public

Purpose

Demonize

Themes

Economy and finance, Home front

Event

New Economic Policy

Techniques

Name-calling

Source

Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are

Source

Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026

Rights

Public domain (published 1925, before 1931); also PD-Russia on Commons
Krokodil No. 20 (130), May 1925, cover by Iv. Malyutin. Scan on Wikimedia Commons (PD-Russia; artist died before 1952). US basis: first published 1925, before 1931.

ГОД ИЗДАНИЯ ТРЕТИЙ.
Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!
МОСКВА. МАЙ 1925 г.
№ 20 (130)
Цена 15 коп.
КРОКОДИЛ
Рис. Ив. Малютина.
МНОГО ЛИ БЫВШЕМУ ЧЕЛОВЕКУ ЗЕМЛИ НУЖНО?
ПОМЕЩИК, ИЗГОНЯЕМЫЙ ИЗ ИМЕНИЯ: — А все-таки и я владеть землей имею право...

THIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION.
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
MOSCOW. MAY 1925
No. 20 (130)
Price 15 kop.
CROCODILE
Drawing by Iv. Malyutin.
DOES A FORMER MAN NEED MUCH LAND?
LANDOWNER BEING EVICTED FROM HIS ESTATE: — And all the same, I too have the right to own land...