VICE Vol. 1 · No. 8 (German Edition)
The Russian Issue — Wodka / Gulag / Folter / Korruption / Angst
German-edition VICE Volume 1 Number 8, corresponding to the international VICE Volume 13 Issue 4, 'The Russian Issue'. The German cover localises the issue strapline as 'Wodka / Gulag / Folter / Korruption / Angst' beneath a confrontational low-angle photograph of an unidentified boy.
Read the catalogue note →- Publication
- VICE
- Condition
- Very Good−
- Completeness
- Main magazine complete under the standing TMR completeness rule; no missing originally issued component has been reported for this copy.
- Date
- April 2006 (global issue chronology; German local month not printed)
Catalogue note
German-edition VICE Volume 1 Number 8, corresponding to the international VICE Volume 13 Issue 4, 'The Russian Issue'. The German cover localises the issue strapline as 'Wodka / Gulag / Folter / Korruption / Angst' beneath a confrontational low-angle photograph of an unidentified boy. The masthead documents VICE Deutschland GmbH and an unusually revealing transnational editorial structure, with German production alongside Andy Capper's European editorship and UK photographic contributors Jamie-James Medina and Alex Sturrock. The issue belongs to VICE's mid-2000s expansion from free underground magazine into an international youth-media network, while retaining a deliberately provocative editorial and photographic language.
Why this object matters
The German localisation and transnational masthead are substantive evidence of VICE’s regional expansion and editorial framing of Russia. Retain outstanding 8.5, distinguishing analysis of provocative representation from endorsement of it.
Evidence limits: Main magazine complete under the standing TMR completeness rule; no missing originally issued component has been reported for this copy.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.5 / 10.
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