Brandenberger has reprinted and translated a selection of jokes from the anthology The Kremlin and the People compiled by Evgenii Andreevich and published in 1951 apparently by the
anti-communist Munich weekly Golos naroda. The arrangement is by such topic as the new economic policy, collectivization, everyday life, the great terror, the Great Patriotic War, and the early
postwar years. Russian and English are in parallel columns. The appendix presents some jokes told by former Soviet citizens being interviewed in 1950-51 by a Harvard University project
assessing public support for the Stalinist regime. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
