These uproariously funny stories of Russia's leading but outlawed humorist give a behind-the-scenes look at daily life in the Soviet Union-a country of housing shortages and consumers' goods shortages, of inefficiency and bad roads, of bureaucracy and red tape, whose heroes are often fools, knaves, charlatans, fakers, poseurs.
| ISBN: | 9780472060702 |
| Publication date: | 13th November 1959 |
| Author: | Mikhail Zoshchenko |
| Publisher: | The University of Michigan Press an imprint of University of Michigan Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history European history History |