Authoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire
and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuania. Artists,
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 Klumbyte
investigates official attempts to shape citizens into Soviet
subjects and engage them through a culture of popular humor. Broom
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.
Authoritarian Laughter 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.
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