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 Ideas: Alphabetical Reflections on the Loathsomeness of Russia,

by Andrew Sobesednikov, Alicia Chudo

Release Date: May, 2000

Edition: Paperback

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From Russia: "Wear gloves!"

A scalding repast of Cyrillo-Slavic virtues and vices; a true academecian triumph. This discourse on the ambiguities rages against Tsarist constipation just as poignantly as it does against the unconscious Soviet collectives (or is that Soviet collective unconscious?). A must for all scholars, travellers, and seekers of selfless debasement.

Can You Say "Vanity Press"?

This book (whose actual author is the distinguished Slavist Gary Saul Morson) has a few very funny segments, but there's an awful lot of dross; the more I read, the less I liked it. It makes me sad to think that someone's real book was probably passed over in order to publish this hodgepodge of professorial doodlings.