| Description |
xiii, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 21 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-339) and index. |
| Contents |
Laughter under Lenin -- Stalin and the Grim Grin -- Nazi jokes vs communist jokes -- The Soviet bloc -- The golden age of communist jokes -- Stagnating jokes -- The end is wry -- We're not joking. |
| Summary |
"Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the 80 years of political experimentation in Russia and Eastern Europe, known as Communism. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries - surrounded by an invisible network of secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labour, confronted by an economic system that left shops empty, and bombarded with ludicrous state propaganda - turned joke-telling into an art form. They used jokes as a coded way of speaking the truth." "'Hammer and Tickle' takes us on a unique journey through the Communist era (1917-1989), and tells its real history through subversive jokes and joke-tellers, many of whom ended up in the gulags. It is also illustrated with a combination of rare and previously unpublished archive material, political cartoons, caricatures, photographs and state-sponsored propaganda."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Communism -- Humor.
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Communism -- History.
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Communism. (OCoLC)fst00870421
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Humor. (OCoLC)fst01423696
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| Added Title |
Hammer and tickle |
| ISBN |
9780297853541 (cased) |
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0297853546 (cased) |
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