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  • Communist Daze

  • The Many Misadventures of a Soviet Doctor
  • By: Vladimir A. Tsesis
  • Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg
  • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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By: Vladimir A. Tsesis
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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 Soviet officials on his knees 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.

©2017 Vladimir A. Tsesis (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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  • Categories: History
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The misadventures of a young doctor in the USSR

Amusing account of the author's years as a young doctor in a small, backward village in the "most advanced country in the world" -- the great, creaky madhouse that was the Soviet Union in the 1960s.

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