Explaining Krokodil Magazine and the Soviet media system -- Krokodil's format and visual language -- A "school for laughter?": carnivalesque humor and menippean satire in Krokodil -- The co-creation of Krokodil Magazine -- Participatory reading: the forms and consumption of Soviet satire -- Making the risible visible: the performative construction of non-Soviet ideology in Krokodil -- Krokodil's hollow center: the performance of affirmation -- Becoming Soviet in Krokodil