Hammer and Tickle: The Story of Communism, A Political System Almost Laughed Out of Existence by Ben Lewis

Hammer and Tickle: The Story of Communism, A Political System Almost Laughed Out of Existence

Ben Lewis

449 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history funny informative medium-paced
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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, thre...

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