num_pages: 268
description: The bizarre history of Russian science in the Soviet epoch through the eyes and anecdotes of a gifted iconoclastic practitioner--Iosif Shlovsky, one of the most outstanding Soviet astronomers of the postware generation.10,000 print.
language: English
title: Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon: Tales of a Soviet Scientist
titlecomplete: Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon: Tales of a Soviet Scientist
ratings_count: 24
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc