Political Humor Under Stalin

Political Humor Under Stalin
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Book Synopsis Political Humor Under Stalin by : David Brandenberger

Download or read book Political Humor Under Stalin written by David Brandenberger and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Humor under Stalin is an anthology of jokes, wisecracks, and satire from the Soviet 1930s and '40s that provides a glimpse of everyday dissembling and dissent in one of the modern world's most repressive societies. More than merely a joke book, it offers no less than a folkloric counter-narrative to the official history of the USSR, as well as a ground-breaking discussion of the culture of joke-telling under Stalin.


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