Bøker av Evgeny (Professor of Russian Studies and Co-Director of the Prokhorov Centre for the Study of Central and Eastern European Intellectual and Cultural History Dobrenko

Stalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny! Tracing the development of official humour, satire, and comedy, Dobrenko and Jonsson-Skradol do away with the idea that all humour in the USSR was subversive, instead exploring why laughter was a core component to the survival of the Soviet regime.