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We have here a light and harmless book that has appeared on American bookshelves thanks to the ripple effect of perestroika on SovietAmerican political and cultural relations Soviet Humour is a selection of caricatures published in recent years in the celebrated Soviet satirical magazine Krokodil At the grand old age of 67 Krokodil is the oldest magazine of its kind in the Soviet Union published every 10 days it enjoys the largest circulation of any periodical53 million copies In his warm greetings aimed at the American reader and titled Lets Laugh Together Aleksey Pyanov editorinchief of Krokodil reveals how this book came to be The idea was proposed by Herbert Cummings president of the Workshop Library on World Humour and James Boren president of the International Assn of Professional Bureaucrats
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We have here a light and harmless book that has appeared on American bookshelves thanks to the ripple effect of perestroika on SovietAmerican political and cultural relations Soviet Humour is a selection of caricatures published in recent years in the celebrated Soviet satirical magazine Krokodil At the grand old age of 67 Krokodil is the oldest magazine of its kind in the Soviet Union published every 10 days it enjoys the largest circulation of any periodical53 million copies In his warm greetings aimed at the American reader and titled Lets Laugh Together Aleksey Pyanov editorinchief of Krokodil reveals how this book came to be The idea was proposed by Herbert Cummings president of the Workshop Library on World Humour and James Boren president of the International Assn of Professional Bureaucrats
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Political Humor under Stalin is an anthology of jokes wisecracks and satire from the Soviet 1930s and 40s that provides a glimpse of everyday dissembling and dissent in one of the modern world s most repressive societies More than merely a joke book it offers no less than a folkloric counternarrative to the official history of the USSR as well as a groundbreaking discussion of the culture of joketelling under Stalin
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Political Humor under Stalin is an anthology of jokes wisecracks and satire from the Soviet 1930s and 40s that provides a glimpse of everyday dissembling and dissent in one of the modern world s most repressive societies More than merely a joke book it offers no less than a folkloric counternarrative to the official history of the USSR as well as a groundbreaking discussion of the culture of joketelling under Stalin
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Russian science fiction humor story translated into English A computer invented by a zany brilliant graduate student can duplicate human beings down to the minutest molecule In his attempts to escape the police and scientific establishment he makes himself several times and has to contend with their rivalry as well
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Russian science fiction humor story translated into English A computer invented by a zany brilliant graduate student can duplicate human beings down to the minutest molecule In his attempts to escape the police and scientific establishment he makes himself several times and has to contend with their rivalry as well
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A remarkable collection of Romanian political humor when that nation was under Soviet influence A must for historians of the Communist Party
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What is art Who defines it And why is high art so remote from most people With the same puckish humor and critical genius that made them the bêtes noires of Soviet cultural commissars the Russian émigré art team of Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid takes on not only the billiondollar American art industry but also capitalisms most venerated tool the market research poll With the help of The Nation Institute and a professional polling team they discovered that what Americans want in art regardless of class race or gender is exactly what the art world disdainsa tranquil realistic blue landscapePainting by Numbers includes the original questionnaire and reproductions of the most wanted and most unwanted paintings the artists made based on American survey results and on polls they commissioned in ten other countriesincluding Russia China France and Kenyarepresenting almost onethird of the worlds population Essays by JoAnn Wypijewski and noted art critic Arthur Danto as well as an interview with the artists explore the crisis of modernism the cultural meaning of polls the significance of landscape and the commodificaion of just about everything
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian meets Desperate Housewives in this exploration of the booming business of Russian emailorder brides an industry where love and marriage collide with sex and commerce Odessa Ukraine is the humor capital of the former Soviet Union but in an upsidedown world where waiters earn more than doctors and Odessans depend on the Mafia for basics like phone service and medical supplies no one is laughing After months of job hunting Daria a young engineer finds a plum position at a foreign firm as a secretary But every plum has a pit In this case its Mr Harmon who makes it clear that sleeping with him is job one Daria evades Harmons advances by recruiting her neighbor the slippery Olga to be his mistress But soon Olga sets her sights on Darias job Daria begins to moonlight as an interpreter at Soviet UnionsTM a matchmaking agency that organizes socials where lonely American men can meet desperate Odessan women Her grandmother wants Daria to leave Ukraine for good and pushes her to marry one of the men she meets but Daria already has feelings for a local She must choose between her world and America between Vlad a sexy irresponsible mobster and Tristan a teacher nearly twice her age Daria chooses security and America Only its not exactly what she thought it would be A wry tender and darkly funny look at marriage the desires we dont acknowledge and the aftermath of communism Moonlight in Odessa is a novel about the choices and sacrifices that people make in the pursuit of love and stability
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In his original new study Seth Graham analyzes a rich and forgotten vein of humor in an otherwise bleak environment The late Soviet period 19611986 hardly seems fertile ground for humor but Russian jokes anekdoty about life in the Soviet Union were ubiquitous The cultural and political relaxation in the decade following Stalins death produced considerable optimism among Soviet citizens The anekdot exploited and exposed what Graham calls Soviet diglossia official Sovietese vs Russian everyday language and emphasized the distance between official myths and quotidian reality Jokes engaged a range of official and popular culture genres and also worked metatextually referring to the political consequences of jokes While the dissidents of this period who stressed the heroic and opposed everything Soviet have been much written about Grahams work on the anekdotywritten in the third person ironic and engaged with everything Sovietfills a hole that has been overlooked in cultural history
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Though told with charm and humor Ellas life reads like a suspense novel On the day that Germany invades Russia her father is arrested in Kiev by Soviet authorities never to be heard from again Ellas family flees returning only when the city falls to the Germans Fluent in German her mother provides for her children by assisting the occupying forces When the city is about to return to Russian hands the family must flee again this time escaping to Germany by freight trainDespite her hard life as a refugee food is scarce and Allied bombings kill her grandmother and destroy yet another home Ella finds solace in others and retains her indomitably inquisitive spirit Her mother marries a widower to survive and the family emigrates to the United States As the indentured servants of their sponsor family in Mississippi they pick cotton and live in poverty Ella puzzled by segregation learns about the Holocaust which her abusive stepfather denies and realizes that her late father was probably Jewish Throughout her ordeals she never relinquishes hope or sight of her goal of education Her memoir ends with the happy news that she has received a full scholarship to college
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A remarkable collection of Romanian political humor when that nation was under Soviet influence A must for historians of the Communist Party
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