Tiny Revolutions in Russia: Twentieth-Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Tiny Revolutions in Russia: Twentieth-Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes. Bruce Adams. Routledge-Curzon. [pounds sterling]60.00. vii + 173 pages. ISBN 0-415-35173-1. George Orwell once wrote, 'Every joke is a tiny revolution'. Humour is also a way in which people laugh at the official views promulgated from above, whether they be Soviet Communism or Politically Correct Multiculturalism. The book's concern is with jokes or anecdotes (of which 794 are given here) which, ...

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