{"product_id":"authoritarian-laughter-political-humor-and-soviet-dystopia-in-lithuania-hardback-9781501766688","title":"Authoritarian Laughter; Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania (Hardback) 9781501766688","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAuthoritarian Laughter\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolitical Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNeringa Klumbytė (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501766688\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 December 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e306 pages, 26 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 1 chart - 1 Charts - 26 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book—a historical ethnography of Soviet Lithuania's satire magazine The Broom—is an insightful reading produced thirty years after the state discipline of Soviet socialism was replaced by the self-discipline of Lithuanian nationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Russian Review) \u003cp\u003eThis book provides a valuable contribution to studies of Soviet authoritarianism by exploring the dynamics between the authoritarian government and its citizens, the resistance to state power, and the role of state propaganda and popular participation. These topics have long been of interest to scholars studying the region.\u003c\/p\u003e (AB IMPERIO)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies) Women's Forum.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAuthoritarian Laughter \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eexplores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuania. \u003c\/b\u003eArtists, writers, and journalists were required to create state-sponsored Soviet humor and serve the Communist Party after Lithuania was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Neringa Klumbytė investigates official attempts to shape citizens into Soviet subjects and engage them through a culture of popular humor. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBroom was multidirectional—it both facilitated Communist Party agendas and expressed opposition toward the Soviet regime. Official satire and humor in Soviet Lithuania increasingly created dystopian visions of Soviet modernity and were a forum for critical ideas and nationalist sentiments that were mobilized in anti-Soviet revolutionary laughter in the late 1980s and early 1990s. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAuthoritarian Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates that Soviet Western peripheries were unstable and their governance was limited. While authoritarian states engage in a statecraft of the everyday and seek to engineer intimate lives, authoritarianism is defied not only in revolutions, but in the many stories people tell each other about themselves in jokes, cartoons, and satires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Authoritarian Laughter\u003cbr\u003e 1. Banality of Soviet Power\u003cbr\u003e 2. Political Intimacy\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Soviet Predicament \u003cbr\u003e 4. Censorial Indistinction\u003cbr\u003e 5. Political Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e 6. Multidirectional Laughter \u003cbr\u003e 7. Satirical Justice\u003cbr\u003e 8. Soviet Dystopia\u003cbr\u003e Post Scriptum: Revolution and Post-authoritarian Laughter\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Lost Laughter and Authoritarian Stigma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607879315736,"sku":"9781501766688","price":99.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/authoritarian-laughter-political-humor-and-soviet-dystopia-in-lithuania-hardback-9781501766688","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}