LOL at Loss: Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise
Editors
Forum Ab Imperio: Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise
SUMMARY
This is a brief introduction to the discussion forum “Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise.” It explicates the
scholarly relevance of Sheila Fitzpatrick’s essay “Soviet History as Black Comedy,” which is discussed in the forum by literary scholars, historians, and political scientists.
Notes
[1]Bertolt Brecht. Refugee Conversations
[2]/ Translated by Romy Fursland. London, 2020. P. 62.
[3]Salvatore Attardo. Introduction // Salvatore Attardo (Ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor. New York, 2017. P. 5.
[4]Debra Aarons. Puns and Tacit Linguistic // Attardo (Ed.). The Routledge Handbook. P. 83.
[5]Ilya Gerasimov. Narrating Russian History after the Imperial Turn // Ab Imperio. 2020. Vol. 21. No. 4. Pp. 21–61; idem. A New Soviet History: An Editor’s Observations Thirty Years after the USSR // Ab Imperio. 2021. Vol. 22. No. 4. Pp. 27–54.