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Communist Daze

The Many Misadventures of a Soviet Doctor

By: Vladimir A. Tsesis

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Communist Daze

The Many Misadventures of a Soviet Doctor

By: Vladimir A. Tsesis

This darkly comic memoir “reveal[s] 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). Welcome to Gradieshti, a Soviet village awash in gray buildings and ramshackle fences, 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 antibiotic 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. “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

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Indiana University Press

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0253025893

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Communist Daze

The Many Misadventures of a Soviet Doctor

By: Vladimir A. Tsesis

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The Many Misadventures of a Soviet Doctor

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Who's Yelling in My Stethoscope?

True Short Stories from a Pediatrician

By: Vladimir Tsesis

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Who's Yelling in My Stethoscope?

True Short Stories from a Pediatrician

By: Vladimir Tsesis

Who's Yelling in My Stethoscope? is guaranteed to warm the hearts of readers who love the bright ideas, amusing vocabularies, earnest presumptions and innocent wisdom of youngsters.Recipient of a Parents' Choice Approved seal for projecting solid human values, this is a book of chuckles, small tragedies and hope. It contains unforgettable quotes, commentaries and sage advice from kids who have made Dr. Tsesis a hero in his own office and a prisoner of the bright, perceptive eyes of those who trust their well-being to his genius.

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Vladimir Tsesis

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1885221843

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9781885221841

Ballad of My Fearless Heroine

Cancer, Be Not Proud

By: Vladimir Tsesis

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Ballad of My Fearless Heroine

Cancer, Be Not Proud

By: Vladimir Tsesis

The author of several books, Vladimir Tsesis dedicated this work to millions of women heroically fighting the aggressive metastatic breast cancer. Under the pen of the writer, the "medical history" of his wife, Marina, turned into an exciting chronicle of stoic resistance to a fatal ailment, filled with not only happy findings of the peaceful flow of everyday life but also irreparable losses. Contrary to the forecasts of American experts who predicted Marina's inevitable death in a few months, she lived for another fifteen years, a whole life, making a creative contribution to the lives of loved ones and without ceasing to express love for the whole family. Marina helped friends, was a volunteer at school, for several years helped her son prepare for publication of a huge collection of documents on the history of the Holocaust, lived an active social life, traveled a lot, continued to be fond of reading and music, willingly shared her impressions, and under no circumstances posed herself as a victim, although she had to constantly undergo cycles of challenging medical therapy. Truly, she lived every day as if it were her last, filling each day with the events and gifts of her new life, setting an example of resilience in life's circumstances. The aggressive form of cancer could not force her to capitulate and break her morale. She lived for today and under no circumstances pretended to be a victim, and except for the last days of her life, she never lost control of the situation she was in. Many books have been written about people who suffered from serious illnesses, but people who love and care for the sick also suffer. And the suffering of caregivers can be very deep. After a long period of introspection, the author compiled his "Program of Twelve Steps," which helped him overcome the grief of loss.

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Communist Daze

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Who's Yelling in My Stethoscope?

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Ballad of My Fearless Heroine

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