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Russian political jokes are a part of Russian humour and can be grouped into the major time periods: Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.In the Soviet period political jokes were a form of social protest, mocking and criticising leaders, the system and its ideology, myths and rites. [1]
Jessie Coulson, in the introduction to a 1966 Penguin publication that includes the story, states of "A Nasty Story": Its theme is the terrible gulf between a man's idea of himself, his ideals, and his motives, and what they prove to be in the harsh light of reality.
Poruchik (First Lieutenant) Dmitry Rzhevsky (Sometimes spelled Rzhevskiy) of the jokes is a cavalry officer, a straightforward, unsophisticated, and innocently rude military type whose rank and standing nevertheless gain him entrance into high society.
Philosophy, politics and economics was established as a degree course at the University of Oxford in the 1920s, [20] as a modern alternative to classics (known as "literae humaniores" or "greats" at Oxford) for those entering the civil service.