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<p>In <i>Devastation and Laughter</i>, <i> </i>Annie G?rin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin. G?rin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was neither marginal nor un-theorized. The author sheds light on the theoretical texts written in the 1920s and 1930s by Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, and the impact his writings had on sat
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- Author
- Annie Gérin
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781487502430
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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