Hammer And Tickle
A History Of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes
$40.27
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2009
Summary
Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always 2-ply? Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow.
Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the 80 years of political experimentation in Russia and Eastern Europe, known as Communism. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries - surrounded by an invisible network of secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753825822 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753825821 |
| Author: | Ben Lewis |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘There is a laugh on every page’
Ben Lewis’s book celebrates the brilliance with which jokes exposed the gulf between the Soviet ideal and its brutal reality. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
There is a laugh on every page - S MAGAZINE, SUNDAY EXPRESS - John SuchetAbout The Author
Ben Lewis
Ben Lewis’ award-winning film Hammer and Tickle was broadcast on BBC4 in 2006. His article on Communist jokes for Prospect magazine, received the greatest number of hits for any article that year.
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