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Hammer And Tickle
- A History Of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes
Af: Ben Lewis
Engelsk Paperback
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Hammer And Tickle
- A History Of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes
Af: Ben Lewis
Engelsk Paperback

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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 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 It is also illustrated with a combination of rare and previously unpublished archive material, political cartoons, caricatures, photographs and state-sponsored propaganda.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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9780753825822
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0753825821
Udg. Dato:
28 maj 2009
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
128mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
Orion Publishing Co
Oplagsdato:
28 maj 2009
Forfatter(e):
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