Corazon de Leon wrote:Riksilver wrote:Dissertation is due on Thursday but I have absolutely no motivation blegggghhh
Also have a presentation the same day so realistically have to hand in diss by wednesday to have time to prepare for that, doing it on videogames with a historical setting though so I feel fairly confident in my ability to bullshit my way through it come up with a good presentation off the back of that.
Is it undergrad? What's your dissertation title? Out of interest.
Yeah, undergrad History, title is
"Responding to the "tiny revolutions": Soviet official humour and its interaction with popular humour under Lenin and Stalin"
Basically looking at Soviet-era jokes and why people told them (given the threat of arrest if you got caught taking the piss out of the regime) and how the government responded with its own satire to redirect criticism away from the political centre towards "acceptable" targets like bureaucrats/corrupt officials
(yes I have basically spent a year looking at Russian jokes and cartoons this is real historical scholarship I promise)