Audio only
Communist Daze
The Many Misadventures of a Soviet DoctorBy Vladimir A. Tsesis MDNarrated by Daniel GamburgLength8h 5m
About this audiobook
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 on his knees to Soviet officials 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.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.1 (50)
Includes Goodreads
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byDaniel Gamburg
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateFeb 20, 2017
LanguageEnglish
More from Vladimir A. Tsesis MD
John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Annotated)John Muir10h 13m4.7 (1.1K)$1.99 · $0.00
Invisible StormJason Kander6h 48m4.7 (3.2K)$24 · $0.00
Forever BoyKate Swenson9h 27m4.7 (5K)$29 · $0.00
You Are Worth ItKyle Carpenter, Don Yaeger8h 53m4.7 (4.8K)$29 · $0.00
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m4.6 (178K)$7 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m4.7 (2.5K)$40 · $0.00
Evidence Not SeenDarlene Deibler Rose11h 11m4.6 (11.9K)$29 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
Will You Love Me?Cathy Glass9h 5m4.6 (9.3K)$29 · $0.00
Designing Terry Pratchett’s DiscworldPaul Kidby3h 52m4.7 (343)$20 · $0.00
HostageEli Sharabi5h 25m4.6 (10.8K)$24 · $0.00
Finding MeViola Davis9h 15m4.6 (256.4K)$29 · $0.00
The Dangerous Truth about Today’s MarijuanaLaura Stack CSP, MBA9h 57m4.7 (385)$20 · $0.00
Birdie & HarlowTaylor Wolfe7h 50m4.6 (6.5K)$26 · $0.00
The Lives of BrianBrian Johnson9h 45m4.6 (3.5K)$29 · $0.00
I Am The StormJanice Dean9h4.6 (1.5K)$8 · $0.00
Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$18 · $0.00
Just as I AmCicely Tyson16h 8m4.6 (99K)$33 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m4.6 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m4.6 (16.7K)$26 · $0.00
You may also like
Revolution for DummiesBassem Youssef7h 13m4.3 (3.5K)$24 · $0.00
The State Must ProvideAdam Harris7h 15m4.5 (775)$24 · $0.00
The Housemaid’s DaughterBarbara Mutch14h 54m4.0 (10.1K)$23
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian SlaveMary Prince2h 14m4.0 (5.3K)Free
One Hundred And Four HorsesMandy Retzlaff10h4.3 (1.2K)$29 · $0.00
Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe20h 11m4.1 (631.2K)$2.30 · $0.00
The Last ExilesAnn Shin9h 59m3.9 (2.5K)$29 · $0.00
First, They Erased Our NameHabiburahman7h 1m4.4 (883)$17 · $0.00
GerminalÉmile Zola16h 6m4.3 (58.2K)$1 · $0.00
We Crossed a Bridge and It TrembledWendy Pearlman6h4.6 (5.2K)$24 · $0.00
Uncle Tom’s CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe20h 7m4.1 (277.4K)$2.40 · $0.00
One Hundred and Four HorsesMandy Retzlaff10h4.3 (1.2K)$29 · $0.00
City of a Thousand GatesBee Sacks13h 49m3.6 (1.8K)$33 · $0.00
The True Story of Mary Prince, a West Indian SlaveMary Prince2h 51m4.1 (5.4K)$2 · $0.00
One Bright MoonAndrew Kwong12h 21m4.5 (813)$29 · $0.00
The Last ExilesAnn Shin9h 59m3.8 (2.1K)$29 · $0.00
Fly, Wild SwansJung Chang10h 21m3.9 (2.1K)$29 · $0.00
Not Our ProblemAbdulhaq Sodais, Spencer Sullivan8h 59m$23
The 86th VillageSena Desai Gopal8h 52m3.8 (64)$20
Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a SatireEdward Jenkins3h 13m3.5 (58)$2 · $0.00