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>[article author] also came across a wonderfully overwritten PhD thesis by the Stanford anthropologist Seth Benedict Graham: A Cultural Analysis of the Russo-So
by homarp 4y ago
>[article author] also came across a wonderfully overwritten PhD thesis by the Stanford anthropologist Seth Benedict Graham: A Cultural Analysis of the Russo-Soviet Anekdot (anekdot is the Russian word for a political joke).
https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/9560/1/grahamsethb_etd2003.pdf https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/9560/1/grahamsethb_etd2003.pd...
- gukov 4y agoAn anekdot doesn't have to be political. Actually, most of the time it isn't.