State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture by Evgeny Dobrenko and Natalia Jonsson-Skradol (review)

Abstract

study of World War I, the Russian Revolution, international relations, and world history. The chapters are uniformly strong. They draw on numerous archives in multiple countries, and in several cases, provide clear historiographical statements of where they lie within the existing literature in multiple languages. The collection will be especially useful to scholars and researchers in guiding them through the existing approaches to the period, and also highlighting directions for new research. It will also provide much of interest to anyone wanting to better understand this important and tumultuous period of international relations.