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State Laughter

Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture

Jonsson-Skradol, Natalia (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, The Prokhorov Centre for the Study of Central and Eastern European Intellectual and Cultural History, University of Sheffield) & Dobrenko, Evgeny

State Laughter

State Laughter

Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture

State Laughter

 

Stalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny! Tracing the development of official humour, satire, and comedy, Dobrenko and Jonsson-Skradol do away with the idea that all humour in the USSR was subversive, instead exploring why laughter was a core component to the survival of the Soviet regime.

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Stalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny! From comedy films to satirical theatre, from caricature to court speeches, and from Stalin's own writings to bawdy folk songs, humour pervaded the popular culture of the USSR. Until now, conventional wisdom has held that humour was a hallmark of the subversive, but in State Laughter Dobrenko and Jonsson-Skradol do away with that notion. Instead, tracing the development of official humour, satire, and comedy from the revolution through to the 1950s, they explore how and why laughter was a core component of the survival of the Soviet regime. Grounded in Soviet intellectual and cultural history, State Laughter offers the first comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored popular culture in Stalin's Soviet Union.

ISBN
9780198840411
Pagina's
448
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NUR
680
Druk
1
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Hardback
Taal
Engels
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OUP Oxford

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