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Hardback. Condizione: Good. 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 In this poignant and historically revealing book, rare and previously unpublished archive material, including cartoons, caricatures, photographs, and oral transcripts take the reader on a unique journey through the real experience of the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. …

Condizione: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. 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 In this poignant and historically revealing book, rare and previously unpublished archive material, including cartoons, caricatures, photographs, and oral transcripts take the reader on a unique journey through the real experience of the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. …

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was an active member of the left wing of the German Social-Democratic Party before the First World War, and thereafter a leading figure in the German Communist Party, and the Communist International. This book presents mainly newly-translated material and academic essays. It will help to affirm her place amongst the leading revolutionary Marxists of the twentieth century. Almost all of the contents will be entirely new to English-language readers. The contents includes Writings on the Socialist Women's Movement, Critical perspectives on Social Democracy, Guidelines for the Communist Women's Movement, Letters to Lenin, and to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, A Speech to the Executive Committee of the Communist International, and Her Opening Speech to the Reichstag, in 1932, and much else besides. Copyright © Merlin Press.…