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Hammer And Tickle: A History Of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes

By Ben Lewis

Book information

Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Year
2008
ISBN
0297853546, 9780297853541
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
5 MB (4963456 bytes)
Pages
368\0
Time added
2019-01-29 14:22:17

Description

Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always two-ply? A: Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow. 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 In this poignant and historically revealing book, rare and previously unpublished archive material, including cartoons, caricatures, photographs, and oral transcripts take the reader on a unique journey through the real experience of the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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