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Hammer And Tickle - A History Of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes (Paperback)
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Hammer And Tickle - A History Of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes (Paperback)
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Loot Price R340
Discovery Miles 3 400
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The book that immerses the Cold War in the warm bath of nostalgia.
Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East
Germany always 2-ply? A: Because they had to send a copy of
everything they did to Moscow. Communist jokes are the strangest,
funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the 80 years of
political experimentation in Russia and Eastern Europe, known as
Communism. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former
Communist countries - surrounded by an invisible network of secret
police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labour,
confronted by an economic system that left shops empty, and
bombarded with ludicrous state propaganda - turned joke-telling
into an art form. They used jokes as a coded way of speaking the
truth. HAMMER AND TICKLE takes us on a unique journey through the
Communist era (1917-1989), and tells its real history through
subversive jokes and joke-tellers, many of whom ended up in the
gulags. It is also illustrated with a combination of rare and
previously unpublished archive material, political cartoons,
caricatures, photographs and state-sponsored propaganda. Humorous,
culturally poignant and historically revealing, this is the story
of a political system that was (almost) laughed out of existence.
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