Communist daze : the many misadventures of a soviet doctor /
This darkly comic memoir "reveal[s] much about the poverty, drunkenness, political corruption, anti-Semitism, and fundamental absurdity of rural life in the Soviet 1960s" (Deborah A. Field author of Private Life and Communist Morality in Khrushchev's Russia). Welcome to Gradieshti, a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; COMMUNIST DAZE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: September 1964; Acknowledgments; Beginnings; Potemkin Profession; Hard Lives and Few Choices; Just One More Drink; Secrets; The Party's Party; The Longest Shortest Parade in the Soviet Union; How Much Do You Really Want That Vacation, Vladimir?; Windmills; Milk; The Wanderers; Death in a Family; The Great Chase; KGB Daughters, and Why Not to Treat Them; The West Meets the Best; The Incredibly Shrinking Crop; A Frosty Farewell; One Joke Too Many; Endings; Epilogue.