Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s)
by
Annie Gérin
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
In Devastation and Laughter,Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin. Gérin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was neither marginal nor un-theorized....