Smashed in the USSR
Subtitle: fear, loathing, and vodka on the steppes
By: Caroline Walton & Ivan Petrov ; with illustrations by Natalia Vetrova
Contributors: Walton, C. S., 1956- author; Vetrova, Natalʹi͡a, illustrator
Publisher: Old Street Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Brecon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781908699220
Subjects: Alcoholics; Biography; Alcoholism; Social conditions
Description: Ivan Petrov was born in 1934 in the industrial town of Chapaevsk. His father was shot by Stalin as an 'enemy of the people', and Ivan was brought up by his mother and violent stepfather - both alcoholics, along with most of the rest of the town. By his early 20s, Ivan had also succumbed to the lure of the bottle. 'Smashed in the USSR' is his eye-opening, frequently eye-watering story.
Notes: Revised edition of: Ivan Petrov : Russia through a shot glass. New Orleans : Garrett County Press, 1999.