The Dark Underside of Carnival

I'm still in some sense, sorry if I disappoint you here, attached to modernity. French Revolution is a mega event for me and so on. So, my point would be that already what happened in the 20th century was a kind of a dark underside of carnival. Do you know probably, did you read the book, It's a Classic on Carnival, among others, by Michel Bakhtin on Francois Raeble? He elaborated this notion of carnival but his friend, the German art theorist Boris Grois, recently got hold of archives of Bakhtin. The unanimous message from his private notes, that he didn't dare to mention were the Stalinist purpose. Because