Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: State Laughter Stalinism Populism And Origins Of Soviet Culture
Author(s): 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)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198840411
Pages: 448 Pages, 16 Black And White Figures/Illustrations
Publication Date: 5/3/2022
Category: Marxism & Communism