Folklore 43 43 JOKES IN SOVIET ESTONIA1

• Main Author: Arvo Krikmann
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Key words; Jüri Viikberg; macaronic style; political jokes; puns; Russian loans; Soviet Estonia; Soviet jokes; Soviet leaders SOURCES OF EMPIRICAL MATERIAL; Nikita; Chukchi
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.573.3334; http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol43/krikmann.pdf

Abstract: This study seeks to offer a brief empirical overview of jokes told in Estonia between the 1960s and the 1990s and introduces and tests two main suppositions: First, the period of Brezhnev’s rule (and particularly the last part of it) was a golden era of joke-making in the former USSR and p...