Smashed in the USSR: Fear, Loathing and Vodka on the Steppes
A Nonfiction, Biography, Cultural book. Ivan Petrov was a drunkard. And a tramp. As well as a sailor, a beggar, a criminal,...
For forty years Ivan Petrov careered, stumbled, staggered and rampaged all over the vast Soviet empire. Homeless (an illegal condition in the communist utopia), in and out of prison camps, almost always drunk, and with a gift for hilariously sending up the tragic absurdities of Soviet life, Ivan was a real-life Svejk. This is his unforgettable story, as told to Caroline Walton just before his death.
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- Pages: 256 pages
- ISBN: 9781908699220 / 0
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Starkly sad and interesting. The truth of how it was. Ivan Petrov was a drunkard. And a tramp. As well as a sailor, a beggar, a criminal, a night watchman, an absent father, a failed husband and an alkashi (street drinker) who travelled all over the USSR in his decades of living in a dysfunctional society that didn't just tolerate drunkenness but actively caused and encouraged it.His story,... Remembering my childhood admiration for Robinson Crusoe, I wonder why people in books are so much more interesting than those in real life. It wasnt so much the bullying that got me down, though that was bad enough. No, it was being surrounded by so many idiots who felt important for the first time in their lives. Now I spit on everything....
