Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor And Soviet Dystopia In Lithuania

This book explores the authoritarian state project to create an official humor culture in Soviet Lithuania in 1956-1984. It focuses on the satire and humor magazine Broom (Sluota), which created multidirectional laughter and was a forum for a critical public united in anti-Soviet revolutionary laughter in the late 1980s--

• | Author: Neringa Klumbyte
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 15, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 306 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1501766694
• | ISBN-13: 9781501766695