State Laughter Stalinism Populism and Origins of Soviet Culture 1st Edition by Evgeny Dobrenko, Natalia Jonsson Skradol ISBN 0198840411 9780198840411

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ISBN 10: 0198840411
ISBN 13: 9780198840411
Author: Evgeny Dobrenko, Natalia Jonsson Skradol

State Laughter Stalinism Populism and Origins of Soviet Culture 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. The Stalinist World of Laughter: The Fate of the Comic in a Tragic Age

The Aesthetics of “Radical Populism”: Political Dimensions

“Russian Laughter” and the National Origins of the Stalinist “Popular Spirit”

After the Carnival: “The Favorite Weapon”

Victorious Laughter: The Origins of “Positive Satire”

Harmonizing Laughter: A Dialectics of “Positive Satire”

2. A Killer Wit: Laughter in Stalinist Official Discourse

The Beginning of the Plot

Funny Activists

A Funny Hunger Strike

The Monster of Wit

The Sense of an Ending

3. The Funny War: Laughing at the Front in World War Two

Vasilii Terkin: The Typical and the Exceptional

Vasilii Terkin: “Being” and “Just Being”

Vasilii Terkin: All Is Well That Ends Well

Erenburg’s War, 1941–1945: A Question of Trust

Erenburg’s War, 1941–1945: Knowing What, and How Much

Erenburg’s War, 1941–1945: A Question of Perspective

Erenburg’s War, 1941–1945: Authenticity and (Self-)Parody

Erenburg’s War, 1941–1945: A Numbers Game

4. “One Might Think It Is a Ward in a Madhouse”: Late Stalinism, the Early Cold War, and Caricature

An Enemy in Pictures

An Enemy in Words

From a “Negative Realism” to the “Realistic Grotesque”

5. The Gogols and the Shchedrins: Lessons in “Positive Satire”

The Satire of the Impossible

Vaudevillian Satire: No Gogols or Shchedrins Here

Menacing Laughter: Stalin the Satirist

Menacing Laughter: The Nomenklatura Tragicomedy

Criminal Laughter: Gogols and Shchedrins in the Age of Ostap Benders

Nomenklatura Slapstick: The Soviet Kafkas

The Comedies of Fear: 1939–1949–1953

Terror by Laughter

6. The Soviet Bestiary: Genealogy of the Stalinist Fable

Dem′ian Bednyi

7. The Merry Adventures of Stalin’s Peasants: Kolkhoz Commedia dell’arte

“The Colonel Will Find It Funny”: Constructing Soviet Humor

The Kolkhoz Vaudeville: Strategies of Contamination

“Life Has Become Better, Life Has Become Merrier”: A Comedy of “Serious Content”

A Soviet Vanity Fair: Matrimonial Problems of Socialism in the USSR

“Maximum Indiscretion”: Reluctant Lovers

When “The Skirt Wouldn’t Let the Trousers Have Their Way”: The Soviet Amazons

“Time to Merge”: A Card-Carrying Pantalone

“A Grandpa Walking Towards Communism”: The Kolkhoz Lazzi

8. “A Total Racket”: Vaudeville for the New People

“You are Mistaking Me for Someone Else”: Confusions

“Am I a Soviet Person?”: The “Both…And…” Principle

“You Share the Flat Anyway”: Space, Public and Private

“Walk Around the World with a Light Step”: Moving in Space And Time

9. Metalaughter: Populism and the Stalinist Musical Comedy

“The Rest, As They Say, Just Endured It”

Genuine Music for the “Broad Masses Of Workers” (Jazz)

“Overcoming the Noise, Screeching and Grinding of the Orchestra”

A True New Music (Song-Song)

The Real New Music: The Classics (Opera as Operetta)

Zhdanov and the Muses

A True Soviet Classic (A Symphonic Oratorio)

“You’d Need to Study Twenty Years to be Able to Sing Like That”: Twenty Years Later

Bibliography

Index

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