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

Door Ben Lewis

Categorie
Politiek & Staatsinrichting
Boeknummer
#269306
Titel
Hammer And Tickle: A History Of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes
Auteur
Lewis, Ben
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Phoenix
Jaar van uitgave
2009
ISBN10
0753825821
ISBN13
9780753825822
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

The book that immerses the Cold War in the warm bath of nostalgia. Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always 2-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 80 years of political experimentation in Russia and Eastern Europe, known as Communism. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries - surrounded by an invisible network of secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labour, confronted by an economic system that left shops empty, and bombarded with ludicrous state propaganda - turned joke-telling into an art form. They used jokes as a coded way of speaking the truth. HAMMER AND TICKLE takes... (Lees verder) us on a unique journey through the Communist era (1917-1989), and tells its real history through subversive jokes and joke-tellers, many of whom ended up in the gulags. It is also illustrated with a combination of rare and previously unpublished archive material, political cartoons, caricatures, photographs and state-sponsored propaganda. Humorous, culturally poignant and historically revealing, this is the story of a political system that was (almost) laughed out of existence.
Pagina's
354
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 6,00

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