Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania

Authoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuania....
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Author: Neringa Klumbyte
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Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania by Klumbyte, Neringa

Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania

$662.35

Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania

$662.35
Author: Neringa Klumbyte
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Neringa Klumbyte
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 12/15/2022
Pages: 306
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781501766695

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