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Gosmekh: Stalinism and the comic – Dobrenko Evgeny, Johnsson-Skradol Natalia – New Literary Review – 2022 – ISBN 978-5-4448-1836-7

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Most people associate the Stalinist period in the history of the Soviet state with mass repression, darkness and solemn didacticism. However, the popular culture of those years was largely associated with laughter: it included movie comedies and satirical plays, cartoons and feuilletons, proverbs, ditties and fables, vaudeville and collective farm comedies, even court speeches and speeches of Stalin himself. The authors of the book, Yevgeny Dobrenko and Natalia Jonsson-Skradol, focus on laughter sanctioned by the state, which became an instrument of suppression and control. By tracing the development of the official genres of humor, satire, and comedy in the Stalinist era, the authors demonstrate how this art expressed the tastes of mass audiences and what was its ultimate goal, and at the same time revise established stereotypes about the anti-totalitarianism and spontaneity of laughter. Evgeny Dobrenko is a philologist, cultural historian, professor at the University of Venice, and author of Late Stalinism, published in UFO. Natalia Jonsson-Skradol is a researcher at the University of Sheffield, author of works on the role and functions of language in totalitarian regimes.
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