Communist Daze - The Many Misadventures of a Soviet Doctor

Informationen zum Autor Vladimir A. Tsesis Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Deborah A Field, Deborah A. Field, Vladimir A Tsesis, Vladimir A. Tsesis
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780253025869
• ISBN: 978-0-253-02586-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries