Hammer and Tickle: A Cultural History of Communism Earl Brechlin part of the nonsense of

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WILLIAM MELVIN KELLEY was born in New York City in 1937 and attended the Fieldston School and Harvard

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Hammer and Tickle: A Cultural History of Communism Earl Brechlin part of the nonsense ofCommunist humor is 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, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labor, a failed economic system, and bombarded with ludicrous propaganda turned joke telling into an art form, using them as a coded way of speaking the truth and