Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania

Author/Contributor(s):	Klumbyte, Neringa
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	12/15/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"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"--