Communist Daze: The Many Misadventures of a Soviet Doctor
By Vladimir A. Tsesis
Read by Daniel Gamburg
Unabridged
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3 Formats: Retail CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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$29.95
ISBN: 9781504777469
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$55.00
ISBN: 9781504777452
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ISBN: 9781504777476
Category: | Nonfiction/Biography |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Welcome to Gradieshti, a Soviet village awash in gray buildings and ramshackle fences, a home to a large, collective farm and to the most oddball and endearing cast of characters possible.
For three years in the 1960s, Vladimir Tsesis―inestimable Soviet doctor and irrepressible jester―was stationed in a village where racing tractor drivers tossed vodka bottles to each other for sport; where farmers and townspeople secretly mocked and tried to endure the Communist way of life; where milk for children, running water, and adequate electricity were rare; where the world’s smallest, motley parade became the country’s longest; and where one compulsively amorous Communist Party leader met a memorable, chilling fate.
From a frantic pursuit of calcium-deprived, lunatic Socialist chickens to a father begging on his knees to Soviet officials to obtain antibiotics for his dying child, Vladimir’s tales of Gradieshti are unforgettable. Sometimes hysterical, often moving, always a remarkable and highly entertaining insider’s look at rural life under the old Soviet regime, they are a sobering exposé of the terrible inadequacies of its much-lauded socialist medical system.
Details
Details
Available Formats : | Retail CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/Biography |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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