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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tsesis, Vladimir (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.