Neringa Klumbytė is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Russian and Post-Soviet Studies and Director of the Lithuania Program at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University.

This book—a historical ethnography of Soviet Lithuania's satire magazine The Broom—is an insightful reading produced thirty years after the state discipline of Soviet socialism was replaced by the self-discipline of Lithuanian nationalism.(The Russian Review) This book provides a valuable contribution to studies of Soviet authoritarianism by exploring the dynamics between the authoritarian government and its citizens, the resistance to state power, and the role of state propaganda and popular participation. These topics have long been of interest to scholars studying the region.(AB IMPERIO)

• Introduction: Authoritarian Laughter1. Banality of Soviet Power2. Political Intimacy3. The Soviet Predicament 4. Censorial Indistinction5. Political Aesthetics6. Multidirectional Laughter 7. Satirical Justice8. Soviet DystopiaPost Scriptum: Revolution and Post-authoritarian LaughterConclusion: Lost Laughter and Authoritarian Stigma

Neringa Klumbytė is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Russian and Post-Soviet Studies and Director of the Lithuania Program at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University.

This book—a historical ethnography of Soviet Lithuania's satire magazine The Broom—is an insightful reading produced thirty years after the state discipline of Soviet socialism was replaced by the self-discipline of Lithuanian nationalism.(The Russian Review) This book provides a valuable contribution to studies of Soviet authoritarianism by exploring the dynamics between the authoritarian government and its citizens, the resistance to state power, and the role of state propaganda and popular participation. These topics have long been of interest to scholars studying the region.(AB IMPERIO)

• Introduction: Authoritarian Laughter1. Banality of Soviet Power2. Political Intimacy3. The Soviet Predicament 4. Censorial Indistinction5. Political Aesthetics6. Multidirectional Laughter 7. Satirical Justice8. Soviet DystopiaPost Scriptum: Revolution and Post-authoritarian LaughterConclusion: Lost Laughter and Authoritarian Stigma

Neringa Klumbytė is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Russian and Post-Soviet Studies and Director of the Lithuania Program at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University.

This book—a historical ethnography of Soviet Lithuania's satire magazine The Broom—is an insightful reading produced thirty years after the state discipline of Soviet socialism was replaced by the self-discipline of Lithuanian nationalism.(The Russian Review) This book provides a valuable contribution to studies of Soviet authoritarianism by exploring the dynamics between the authoritarian government and its citizens, the resistance to state power, and the role of state propaganda and popular participation. These topics have long been of interest to scholars studying the region.(AB IMPERIO)

• Introduction: Authoritarian Laughter1. Banality of Soviet Power2. Political Intimacy3. The Soviet Predicament 4. Censorial Indistinction5. Political Aesthetics6. Multidirectional Laughter 7. Satirical Justice8. Soviet DystopiaPost Scriptum: Revolution and Post-authoritarian LaughterConclusion: Lost Laughter and Authoritarian Stigma