@article{113206, author = {Serguei Alex. Oushakine}, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Red Laughter{\textquotedblright}: On Refined Weapons of Soviet Jesters}, abstract = { Following closely public debates of the 1920s{\textendash}1950s about the nature and purpose of a distinctively {\textquotedblleft}Soviet{\textquotedblright} laughter and comedy, I will try to distill arguments and rationales that were used by producers of Stalinist culture for determining a socially acceptable (discursive)place for the comic in the country that was going through dramatic transformations of every aspect of its life. }, year = {2012}, journal = {Social Research}, volume = {79}, pages = {189-216}, url = {http://www.socres.org/}, language = {eng}, }