Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Editorial 2
3. Contents 5
4. Introduction 7
5. Napoleon and the 1812 Patriotic War in Russian Humour 15
6. Alfred and Friedrich Alfred Krupp as the Butt of Jokes? 33
7. Letting Loose the Doggerel of War 59
8. Poignant Past. How Interwar Satirical Magazines in Germany, France and Spain Used History to Criticise Their Times 79
9. More than Resistance: Political Humour Under Stalin in the 1930s 103
10. »Then We Will Fight in the Shade« 119
11. Authors and Editors 137