Culture
Molla Nasreddin - the Man and the Magazine
Despite riding one of the most turbulent periods of Caucasian history, the Molla Nasreddin magazine remained relevant thanks to its bold sense of social conscience. It highlighted the hypocrisy of the Muslim clergy, the inequality of women, the imposed backwardness of the poor due to inadequate education and the unreasonable disdain of the Russified intelligentsia towards all things Azerbaijani.