Krokodil No. 48 (158), December 1925: 1905, A Step to October (cover, Radakov)
Magazine cover: a giant worker in cap and open shirt, a broken chain hanging from one wrist, stands before a burning city while a crowd of small figures in a mitre, a cross-bearing priest, officers and a top-hatted man drag the other end of the chain. The oppressors are marked by church and uniform emblems rather than by name; borrowing stigma from those symbols is the transfer tell. The title reads 'Step to October'.
- Date
- December 1925
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Krokodil (Крокодил), illustrated satirical weekly published in Moscow by the Pravda publishing house; cover by Aleksei Radakov
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Alexei Rykov
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Techniques
- Transfer
- 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. 48 (158), December 1925, cover by A. Radakov. Scan on Wikimedia Commons (PD-Russia; artist died before 1952). US basis: first published 1925, before 1931.
Text on the object
ГОД ИЗДАНИЯ ЧЕТВЕРТЫЙ. Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! МОСКВА. ДЕКАБРЬ 1925 г. № 48 (158) Цена 12 коп. КРОКОДИЛ 1905 Рис. А. Радакова. ШАГ К ОКТЯБРЮ.
FOURTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Proletarians of all countries, unite! MOSCOW. DECEMBER 1925 No. 48 (158) Price 12 kop. CROCODILE 1905 Drawing by A. Radakov. A STEP TO OCTOBER.
Literal translation by Claude (machine translation, not fluent-reader verified). Handwritten numeral at top is a library annotation and is not transcribed.
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