You Call this Living?: A Collection of East European Political Jokes
- ISBN-10
- 0820312827
- ISBN-13
- 9780820312828
- Category
- Humor
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Authors
- Alan Dundes, C. Banc
Description
The political joke is as old as politics - a classic form of popular social commentary that skewers even as it amuses. This book brings together some of the most mordantly funny examples of the genre: the jokes that proliferated (privately, of course) in Eastern Europe under the Warsaw Pact. Recalled by a Romanian Jewish emigre, these jokes not only form a sampling of political humour, they also offer a insight into the conditions that gave rise to the wave of reform and revolution which took place in that part of the world.
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