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| Title: | Ivan Petrov
: Russia Through a Shot Glass |
| Author: | C S Walton |
| ISBN: | 1891053833 : 9781891053832 |
| Illustrations: | 5 maps |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 140x215mm |
| Pages: | 241 |
| Weight: | .336 Kg. |
| Published: | Garrett County Press - February 2006 |
| List Price: | 7.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Biography & autobiography: general: Area/regional studies: Cultural studies: Social & cultural history: Russia |
Ivan Petrov grew up in a provincial Russian town in the middle years of this century. It made no difference which side of the barbed wire you lived on: prisoners in camps, collective farmers, factory workers -- one man's life was as bleak as another's. Some people accepted things as they were and tried to carve out careers for themselves as informers or bureaucrats; others sought a way out. Ivan Petrov chose to become a drunk. Not an ordinary drunk. But a vagabond and a beggar who became intimate with forests, garbage dumps and railway stations all over Russia. C S Walton met Ivan Petrov in a city in West in 1996. Over the course of two years, he told Walton is life story.
