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Tiny Revolutions in Russia Twentieth Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes and Jokes
By Bruce Adams
Copyright 2005
184 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book presents a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the twentieth century to provide an unusual perspective on Soviet and Russian history. 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... Read more
Introduction 1. Lenin 2. Stalin 3. Khrushchev 4. Brezhnev 5. Andropov and Chernenko 6. Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin Index
Biography
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.
'An invaluable resource in teaching and understanding life under Communism.' - Contemporary Review, 287
