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The review article discusses three important new books focused on the topic of official Soviet comedic culture. As these works demonstrate, the various unique forms and genres of political satire developed in the Soviet period require new approaches.

Evgenij Dobrenko ; In kyrill. Schr., russ. - Zsfassung in dt. Sprache ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 93.52788

Stalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny! Tracing the development of official humour, satire, and comedy, Dobrenko and Jonsson-Skradol do away with the idea that all humour in the USSR was subversive, instead exploring why laughter was a core component to the survival of the Soviet regime.

In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period - beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953 - Evgeny Dobrenko analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, he argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia.

In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period--beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953--Evgeny Dobrenko analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, he argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia.

Socialism as will and representation -- Metamorphosis of production forces, 1 : (ideo/bio/agrobio)logy of the socialist realist body -- Metamorphosis of production forces, 2 : socialist realism as a by-product of coercion -- Socialist relations of production: lechery for labor -- Narrative as the means of producing socialism : the milk of the present and the curds of history -- Bildungsfilm : the birth of the socialist-realist hero from the flesh of productive forces ; the birth of melodrama from the spirit of industrial relations -- Consumption of production : discursive strategies for consuming "the facts of growth" -- Marketing and consumption of transformative discourses : strangers in their own land -- The product : Aleksandr Dovzhenko's "created space