Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries-surrounded by secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labor, a failed economic system, and bombarded with ludicrous propaganda-turned joke-telling into an art form, using them as a coded way of speaking the truth and coping with the absurdity of the system. In this poignant and historically revealing book, rare and previously unpublished archive material, including cartoons, caricatures, photographs, and oral transcripts take the reader on a unique journey through the real experience of the Communist era. 25+ B&W illustrations throughout. Clean copy. Record # 33934
Softcover. US, Indiana University Press, reprint, 1990-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 465885
Hardcover. Vilnius, Lithuania, State Enterprise Valstybes Zinios, 1st, 1998, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 637 pages, hardcover. Black cloth covers have some white dappled staining, and the edges are worn with rubbing to the rear corner and middle fore-edge. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography of Lithuanian crosses throughout. This book's text is in Lithuanian, and it contains not only a collection of Lithuanian folk artist's marvelous sacral works, but it is also a snapshot of the nation's soul, replete with suffering, struggle and survival. This large-form book is available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34018
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