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Tiny Revolutions in Russia: Twentieth-Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes. By BRUCE ADAMS. (RoutledgeCurzon Studies on the History of Russia and Eastern Europe) New York and London: RoutledgeCurzon. 2005. 173 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-415-35173-7.

This collection of 794 historically contextualized Russian and Soviet jokes (the title uses a direct translation of the Russian word for an anonymously composed, orally told joke: anekdot) fills something...

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