 | Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s) Subjects: Arts Soviet; Art and state -- Soviet Union; Satire Soviet; Satire in art; Laughter -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917–1970; In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin. Gérin Annie : Annie Gérin is a professor in the Department of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal. |
