The Anglo-American winter war with Russia, 1918-1919 : a diplomatic and military tragicomedy / by Rhodes, Benjamin D.

The forgotten battle of the Kursk salient : 7th guards army's stand against army detachment Kempf / by Zamulin, V. N.

Table of Contents: “…In the shadow of the main attack -- Army Detachment Kempf's role in Operation Citadel -- 3.5 July 1943 -- The beginning of the end of a tragicomedy -- 4. The 7th Guards Army's main defensive belt crumbles -- 5. …”
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State laughter : Stalinism, populism, and origins of Soviet culture / by Dobrenko, E. A., Jonsson-Skradol, Natalia

Table of Contents: “…The Art of Double Entendre: Transference as a Satirical Device -- 5: The Gogols and the Shchedrins: Lessons in "Positive Satire" -- The Satire of the Impossible -- Vaudevillian Satire: No Gogols or Shchedrins Here -- Menacing Laughter: Stalin the Satirist -- Menacing Laughter: The Nomenklatura Tragicomedy -- Criminal Laughter: Gogols and Shchedrins in the Age of Ostap Benders -- Nomenklatura Slapstick: The Soviet Kafkas -- The Comedies of Fear: 1939-1949-1953 -- Terror by Laughter -- 6: The Soviet Bestiary: Genealogy of the Stalinist Fable -- Demian Bednyi -- New Soviet Animals -- Funny Violence…”
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