Communist Daze : The Many Misadventures of a Soviet Doctor /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tsesis, Vladimir (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tsesis, Vladimir.
Tsesis, Vladimir > Health.
Pediatricians.
Health.
HUMOR > General.
MEDICAL > Gynecology & Obstetrics.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
Pediatres > États-Unis > Biographies.
Pediatres > URSS > Biographies.
Pediatricians
Tsesis, Vladimir A
Pediatricians > United States > Biography.
Pediatricians > Soviet Union > Biography.
United States.
Soviet Union.
United States
USSR
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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