Kurikka (magazine) explained

Category:Satirical magazine
Founded:1904
Finaldate:1954
Country:Finland
Based:Helsinki
Language:Finnish

Kurikka was a Finnish language socialist publication headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. It was started as a labor newspaper in 1904, but then was relaunched as an illustrated satirical magazine which was in circulation until 1954.

History and profile

Kurikka was founded as a newspaper in Helsinki in 1904.[1] It was affiliated with labor movement.[2] [3] Soon after its start it was redesigned as an illustrated satirical magazine.[2]

Although it had a socialist stance, its cartoonists also included non-socialist figures, including Eric Vasström and Hjalmar Löfvin.[2] The magazine employed the Old Helsinki slang in the satirical materials.[4] Kurikka was blamed by its opponents for targeting the bourgeoisie. However, before the civil war in Finland in 1918 the magazine declared its enemies as bourgeoisie, capitalists and gentlemen. At the end of the civil war the magazine's affiliation changed in that Kurikka became closer to the Social Democratic Party in 1923 due to the split in the labor movement.

Kurikka enjoyed higher levels of circulation in the 1920s and 1930s.[5] Although its competitors Fyren and Tuulispää sold only 3,000–4,000 copies, Kurikka managed to sell 20,000 copies.[5] The magazine ceased publication in 1954.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Felice Batlan. Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen. Histories of Legal Aid: A Comparative and International Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. 978-3-030-80271-4. Cham. 197. Mia Korpiola. https://books.google.com/books?id=iQdZEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA197. Lawyers providing Legal Aid in Print: Legal Question and Answer Columns in Finnish Newspapers around 1900.
  2. Ainur Elmgren. Visual Stereotypes of Tatars in the Finnish Press from the 1890s to the 1910s. Studia Orientalia Electronica. 2020. 8. 2. 27. 10.23993/store.82942. 10138/333286. 219422535. free.
  3. Book: Johanna Valenius. 2004. Helsinki. Undressing the Maid. Gender, Sexuality and the Body in the Construction of the Finnish Nation. 18. Hakapaino Oy. 978-951-746-593-9.
  4. Vesa Jarva. Old Helsinki Slang and language mixing. Journal of Language Contact. 2008. 10.1163/000000008792512547. 1. 2. 61. free.
  5. Anni Kangas. The Knight, the Beast and the Treasure: A semeiotic inquiry into the Finnish political imaginary on Russia, 1918-1930s. University of Tampere. 63. PhD. 2007. 10024/67797.