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

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 Pooh Perplex, and The Classics Redefined, And Quiet Flows the Vodka will, with any luck, be the final word on the ghastly first two millennia of Russian literature, history, and culture.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 05/15/2000
ISBN: 9780810117884
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.03h x 5.99w x 0.73d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2000 pg. 763
Library Journal 07/01/2000 pg. 89
Atlantic Monthly 08/01/2000 pg. 98