Tiny Revolutions in Russia: Twentieth Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes and Jokes - Rilegato

Adams, Bruce

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0415351731 ISBN 13: 9780415351737

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2005

Riassunto

This book presents a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the 20th century. Anecdotes and jokes were a hidden form of discursive communication in the Soviet era, lampooning official practices and acting as a confidential form of self-affirmation. They were not necessarily anti-Soviet, by their very nature both criticising existing reality and acting as a form of acquiescence. Above all they provide invaluable insights into everyday life, and the attitudes and concerns of ordinary people. The book also includes anecdotes and jokes from the post-Soviet period, when ordinary people in Russia continued to have to cope with rather grim reality, and the compiler provides extensive introductory and explanatory matter to set the material in context.

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Recensione

'An invaluable resource in teaching and understanding life under Communism.'  - Contemporary Review, 287

L'autore

Bruce Adams is professor of Russian history at the University of Louisville. His previous book was The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863-1917. His current research concerns the re-emigration of Russian and Soviet citizens from China to the Soviet Union between the 1920s and the 1960s.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415351731
• ISBN 13: 9780415351737
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 182