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Instead, Lewis embarks on a deeply scholarly examination and analysis of the communist joke - that strand of unofficial, sardonic humour, which appeared to be the unique preserve of people suffering under communist rule - to find out whether or not there is any truth in the capitalist boast that communism was laughed out of existence by its cowed citizenry.
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Knock, Knock
Knock, knock Hammer and Tickle: a History of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes Ben Lewis Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 368pp, £14.99
In the late autumn of 1989, Steve Bell and I had lunch with a Romanian cartoonist on a visit to England courtesy of the British Council. We met in the basemen...See the full content of this document
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