It’s Only A Joke, Comrade! by Jonathan Waterlow (.ePUB)(.AZW3)
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It’s Only A Joke, Comrade!: Humour, Trust and Everyday Life under Stalin (1928-1941) by Jonathan Waterlow
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Overview: In the shadow of the Gulag, Soviet citizens were still cracking jokes. They had to.
Drawing on diaries, interviews, memoirs and hundreds of previously secret documents, It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! uncovers how they joked, coped, and struggled to adapt in Stalin’s brave new world. It asks what it really means to live under a dictatorship: How do people make sense of their lives? How do they talk about it? And whom can they trust to do so?
Moving beyond ideas of ‘resistance’, ‘doublethink’, ‘speaking Bolshevik’, or Stalin’s Cult of Personality to explain Soviet life, it reveals how ordinary people found their way and even found themselves in a life lived along the fault-lines between rhetoric and reality.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History > Comedy > Humour > Russia
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