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Lewis Ben
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Hammer and Tickle: The Story of Communism, a Political System Almost Laughed Out of Existence
Автор: Lewis Ben Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20112010-06-23
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Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries-surrounded by secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labor, a failed economic system, and bombarded with ludicrous propaganda-turned joke-telling into an art form, using them as a coded way of speaking the truth and coping with the absurdity of the system. In this poignant and historically revealing book, rare and previously unpublished archive material, including cartoons, caricatures, photographs, and oral transcripts take the reader on a unique journey through the real experience of the Communist era.
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Hammer and Tickle: A Cultural History of Communism
Автор: Lewis Ben Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20152011-06-25
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Communist humor is the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries — surrounded by secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labor, a failed economic system, and bombarded with ludicrous propaganda--turned joke-telling into an art form, using them as a coded way of speaking the truth and coping with the absurdity of the system. In this poignant and historically revealing book, rare and previously unpublished archival material, including cartoons, caricatures, photographs, and oral transcripts take the reader on a unique journey through the real experience of the Communist era.
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