Book review: Gérin, Annie (2018) Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

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Vol. 8 No. 4 (2020)

Book review: Gérin, Annie (2018) Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

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Submitted July 11, 2019

Published December 9, 2020

Anastasiya Fiadotava⁺⁻

Anastasiya Fiadotava

University of Tartu, Estonian Literary Museum

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Fiadotava, A. (2020). Book review: Gérin, Annie (2018) Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. The European Journal of Humour Research, 8(4), 147–150. Retrieved from https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/400

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