Verfasst von:	Klumbytė, Neringa [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Authoritarian laughter
Titelzusatz:	political humor and Soviet dystopia in Lithuania
Verf.angabe:	Neringa Klumbytė
Verlagsort:	Ithaca ; London
Verlag:	Cornell University Press
Jahr:	2022
Umfang:	xiv, 287 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 263-276 ; Enthält ein Register
ISBN:	978-1-5017-6668-8
	978-1-5017-6669-5
Abstract:	This book 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 Klumbytė 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.
Schlagwörter:	(t)Šluota (1934-) <Zeitschrift, Vilnius>    / (s)Satirische Zeitschrift    / (s)Satire    / (s)Politische Satire    / (s)Politischer Witz
	(g)Litauen    / (s)Subversion    / (s)Humor    / (g)Sowjetunion    / (z)Geschichte 1934-1991
Sprache:	eng
K10plus-PPN:	1794324321