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"To understand the confusing reality of Russia today, it helps to recall the 'bad-old-days' of the late, unlamented Soviet Union. This warm, touching and occasionally hilarious book can assist those recollections." -Michael Medved, nationally syndicated radio show host "In this memoir, a pediatrician describes his work in a Moldovan village; Vladimir A. Tsesis's stories are darkly funny and reveal 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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface: September 1964
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

Communist Daze

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 13 February 2017
      ISBN-13 9780253025869
      978-0253025869
      ISBN-10 0253025869
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      Humour

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "To understand the confusing reality of Russia today, it helps to recall the 'bad-old-days' of the late, unlamented Soviet Union. This warm, touching and occasionally hilarious book can assist those recollections." -Michael Medved, nationally syndicated radio show host "In this memoir, a pediatrician describes his work in a Moldovan village; Vladimir A. Tsesis's stories are darkly funny and reveal 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

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Preface: September 1964
      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

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