And Quiet Flows the Vodka: Or When Pushkin Comes to Shove: The Curmudgeon's Guide to Russian Literature with the Devil's Dictionary of Received I

by Alicia Chudo and Gary Saul Morson

Book Overview

Russia has fascinated outsiders for centuries, and according to Alicia Chudo, it is high time this borscht stopped. In this hilarious send up of Russian literature and history, Chudo takes no prisoners as she examines Russia's great tradition of unreadable geniuses, revolutionaries who can't hit the broad side of a tsar, and Soviets who like their vodka but love their tractors.

Written in the tradition of 1066 and All That, The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810117886
• ISBN13: 9780810117884
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"