HUMOR AND SATIRE IN SOVIET VARIETY ART OF 1920-S
This academic paper represents the diversity of humor and satire in Soviet variety art of 1920s. The variety art is one of the most popular types of art, in which humor and satire dominate. They both are two types of comic, but have their similarities and differences. The Soviet government used humor and satire a lot as an instrument for character building of a new Soviet citizen. In the first decade of the XX century the comic was one of the most useful mechanisms of cultural transformation. Humor and satire formed a new set of values as well as a viewpoint of soviet citizen. Analyze of archival depository helped to identify objects of humor and satire and make a conclusion about functions of the comic in a stated historical period.