Unvarnishing Reality : Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire
An interdisciplinary approach to understanding superpower satireUnvarnishing Reality draws original insight to the literature, politics, history, and culture of the cold war by closely examining the themes and goals of American and Russian satirical fiction. As Derek C. Maus illustrates, the paranoi...
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University of South Carolina Press
2011
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