id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
folklorica-18375	Graham, Seth	Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State	2022	3	.pdf	application/pdf	998	37	38	The empirical chapters are organized thematically according to the topics of the texts analyzed therein: surveillance rumors; political jokes; metajokes; Lukashenko’s image; the Potemkin-village-style efforts to please the President and other political elites on their official visits; and the increasingly farcical elections that have been conducted every four or five years in Belarus since 1994. The book also breaks new ground in the fields of contemporary folklore studies and interdisciplinary humor research, and in particular the wide-ranging tradition of joke studies, represented in the Slavic and East European sphere by authors such as Alexandra Arkhipova, David Brandenberger, Jonathan Waterlow, and Elliott Oring.	cache/folklorica-18375.pdf	txt/folklorica-18375.txt